Where to start reading

[Mauricio Bosshard]

coi ro do

I'm more than halfway through the wave lessons, but I still feel I
have a really hard time dealing with an actual lojban text. Also, I
seem to remember hearing about a change that took place in lojban
grammar, so I am left wondering if the things I don't understand are
even current. For example in "la .teris. ...." the period in the
beginning of the name is not used except in the title. I was under the
impression this was mandatory, so I tend to think this text is in an
older version of lojban.

So what are good texts to start reading in people's opinions?

[Ian Johnson]

For the dotside point, in print we can specify word boundaries with spaces. Thus the dots can be safely omitted, but they are still included in the correct pronunciation. In speech you need the dots, period, because without them {la .latros. mo} (What does Latros do?) can become {la la .tros. mo} (Mo, who is associated with Tros, ...)

mi'e la latro'a mu'o

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[Michael Turniansky]

  Speaking for myself, as author of Terry the Tiger, if there is a dot before the T in the title, that's because someone added it (probably in the migration from the old wiki to the new).  I certainly never had it.  Dotside has never been considered official, and until it is, I won't use it.  All that being said, as latro'a said, it doesn't make a difference in print since the periods are always optional if there is a space in place of them.   

  I happen to immodestly think my story is a great beginning text...

               --gejyspa

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Mauricio Bosshard <mauricio...@gmail.com> wrote:

[mauricio...@gmail.com]

Actually I'm having a bit trouble with it and was looking for a text that was perhaps even simpler. Not that I can't understand it, it is just a lot of work to decipher the grammar...

[Michael Turniansky]

http://mw.lojban.org/papri/not_a_Box ? (also translated by me)

[Mauricio Bosshard]

What a cute story! It was also exactly what I was looking for, very,
very simple so I can start getting a better feel for the language.

.i ki'e la maikl.

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On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mauricio Bosshard <mauricio...@gmail.com> wrote:

What a cute story! It was also exactly what I was looking for, very,
very simple so I can start getting a better feel for the language.

.i ki'e la maikl.

je'e