LogFlash

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

The version of LogFlash on the ftp and WWW servers is indeed the current
one, which has been unchanged for at least 5 years.  The only thing that
has changed in that timeframe was teh word lists, and those have not been
changed since LogFlash was put online.  Do we have a stable language, or what?
zo'o

As to the tradeoff between l4earning vocabulary and grammar - it probably
depends on what you will be doing with the language and where/when.  If you
are reading texts, you can probably do fine by learning vocabulary as you
need it by looking it up.  If you are going to write Lojban, and
wish
to do it well, you need a good overview of what concepts are covered in the
gismu list, and which are not, or you will spend time groping for metaphors
when none are needed.  But even then, if you are composing online and have
a copy of the draft dictionary or even the gismu list that you can grep,
you will get by.  But if you wish to compose offline, or to converse in
Lojban, vocabulary starts playing much more important a role than mastery of
the grammar.

Of course, anyone who does LogFlash and finishes, contributes to the
scientific research aspect of the language (assuming they send their data
files to us when they are done).  For them, I recommend starting in
"Gaining Control" mode rather than the default "New Word review" mode
which is intended to give a faster overview of the whole vocabulary with less
focus on actually mastering any particular set of words.  Gaining Control mode
followed by Maintenance mode, has been demonstrated to teachg the vocabulary so
effectively that you won't forget the words if you try.  (Nora still can
pull up old TLI vocabulary that she learned in 1981-4 with LogFlash, and she
has avoided looking at those words since 1987.)

An abbreviated form of the diagrammed summary (lojex.txt in its full form)
is found in Chapter 2 of the refgrammar, though the latest draft has had
substantial rewrite to blend it with the rest of the book.

lojbab
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