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lingwadeplaneta
lingwadeplaneta@...
Oct 3, 2009 11:38 am
Salam, amigos! It's here: http://lingwadeplaneta.info/files/ldpen.shtml Zipped version: http://lingwadeplaneta.info/files/ldpen.zip The dictionary is not...
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<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Oct 4, 2009 5:05 pm
... Suggestion: Add etymologies. It will serve two purposes. First it will satisfy the curiosity of those of us interested in where you got the roots....
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steve rice
ansric@...
Oct 4, 2009 6:09 pm
... Seconded on both. Etymologies help me considerably, and while internal terms for grammar are good in some cases (mostly more involved texts in the language...
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<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Oct 4, 2009 6:31 pm
... One of the most offputting things about Lojban is having to learn it's native grammtical terms like "gismu", "cmavo", "selbri", etc... I realize that that...
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Jens Wilkinson
jenswilkinson@...
Oct 5, 2009 4:37 am
I wonder if anybody knows of a list of sort of globally known plants, animals, foods, things like that? In Neo Patwa up to now, I've avoided adopting names for...
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<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Oct 5, 2009 6:35 am
... Also worth consideration is the scope of the meanings used. Should "cat" mean only felis domesticus or should it include felines in general which would...
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lingwadeplaneta
lingwadeplaneta@...
Oct 5, 2009 7:13 am
... Maybe take frequency lists for major languages and see what is present there. If a word for animal or plant is used often in a major language, you'll have...
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Geoffrey King
ancientbriton@...
Oct 5, 2009 12:07 pm
I've received am enquiry from an Australian academic about a project by H. E. Raymond called Anglido. He's keen to get scans of anything which is available. ...
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steve rice
ansric@...
Oct 5, 2009 4:33 pm
... The best info I've found is from an old Cosmoglotta: Anglido de H. E. Raymond, Kalamazoo, Lock Box 912 (Michigan, USA). Un compromiss inter Esp-o e Ido à ...
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Alexandre Xavier Casa...
trigrupo@...
Oct 5, 2009 5:45 pm
Ola a todos. Abaixo vai unha mensaxe miña enviada á lista Babélicos (http://es.groups.yahoo.com/group/babelicos/) co gallo do Día Internacional da...
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Alexandre Xavier Casa...
trigrupo@...
Oct 5, 2009 6:06 pm
La fundamento de ekonomika strukturo estabila kaj komforta. (Supre, supersigna teksto; sube, iksosurogata teksto). Saluton al vi ?iuj. Mi povus longigi ?i tiun...
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Bruce R. Gilson
brg1942@...
Oct 5, 2009 10:42 pm
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 14:30:46 -0400, "<deinx nxtxr>" <deinx.nxtxr@...> ... I very much agree. My review of the Lojban book when it became available on ...
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Kjell Rehnstršöm
cellus@...
Oct 6, 2009 6:36 am
... Si yo bon memora mi historia, li Romianes revat pri li passate, quel esset li aurin epoca. Esque on ne posse parlar pri progresse in nor moderne sense ante...
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lingwadeplaneta
lingwadeplaneta@...
Oct 6, 2009 7:10 am
Thanks for the comments, gentlemen. ... Etymologies is a good thing, eventually I'll add them. ... But kwo-worda, kwel-worda, zwo-worda are much easier than...
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<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Oct 7, 2009 1:24 am
... Reading through the Lojban grammar I never could drill these term into my head and they may as well have been written in another script. Regardless I...
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<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Oct 7, 2009 1:30 am
... Actually they are just as strange and exotic as "gismu" and "cmavo". Believe me a potiential learner could quickly be put off by this type of presentation....
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steve rice
ansric@...
Oct 7, 2009 4:28 am
... And remember that most people don't really know what an "adjective" is; they just know it's familiar and real. "Kwel-worda" will be neither. Since the...
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Kjell Rehnstršöm
cellus@...
Oct 7, 2009 5:12 am
... We have a propensity to forget that the process of understanding what an adjective looks like is quite complicated for most of us. Even if most people...
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Kjell Rehnstršöm
cellus@...
Oct 7, 2009 6:57 am
... The trick is to give the meaning of "kwo", "kwel" at first and then talk about !kwo" and "quel"-words. It's a little bid like in Arabic grammars. For...
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lingwadeplaneta
lingwadeplaneta@...
Oct 7, 2009 7:36 am
... It's a possibility: to mark adjectives, active participles and possessives all as "adjectives", having explained first that they are not adjectives in a...
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Kjell Rehnstršöm
cellus@...
Oct 7, 2009 7:58 am
... One can use such words, but in an introduction, if any, it's a good idea to explain the terms one wants to use. Kjell R...
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lingwadeplaneta
lingwadeplaneta@...
Oct 7, 2009 9:05 am
... Sure. There is "Grammatical abbreviations" section in the beginning of the dictionary: http://lingwadeplaneta.info/files/ldpen.shtml It's written there: ...
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Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Oct 7, 2009 1:23 pm
... I've always found Loglan instructional materials more accessible than Lojban's, for the same reasons Dana describes. And I too find the predicate- (or...
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<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Oct 7, 2009 3:30 pm
... Lojban's system is based on a alorithm so it's very systematic unlike Loglan's which seem to have just taken labels wholesale from other languages and made...
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Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Oct 7, 2009 5:32 pm
... Loglan's system seemed systematic from what I recall. (Pre-apology: I'm on major pain meds right now so don't trust anything I say.) They tried to get best...
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steve rice
ansric@...
Oct 7, 2009 5:38 pm
... Have you ever used the methodology yourself? I have. It cannot be made algorithmic beyond a very limited point; even a moment's serious reflection should...
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Alexandre Xavier Casa...
trigrupo@...
Oct 8, 2009 4:33 pm
Proposta de colaboración convosco. Saúdos ós membros da plataforma ProLingua. Pra empezar, vouvos dicir que non me penso dar de alta na vosa plataforma e...
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Alexandre Xavier Casa...
trigrupo@...
Oct 8, 2009 5:31 pm
saluto, pu tesula Partaka ei tesula Tiberio. teknikamente, la regulo jenerala sur las supersignos en la mondo de las konputeros esan kuesta: la aparasiono...
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Risto Kupsala
risto@...
Oct 9, 2009 9:38 am
... "Blanu" contains also Mandarin "lan" and German "blau". But did they forget to cross-check words? "Blanu" is dangerously close to Romance "blank-" (white)....
