Word games

[George Foot <george.foot@MERTON.OXFORD.AC.UK>]

Hi there

I have been learning lojban recently, using logflash to teach me gismu.
This is a bit intensive, though. I thought a better way to teach lojban
translations of English/other language words would be to create word games
and puzzles, centred around translation from <any_language> to lojban. For
example, crosswords with lojban answers and <other_language> clues. This
would entail translation from the reader's natural language into lojban,
which I think is possibly more useful than the reverse translation from
lojban which LogFlash teaches.

I realise that this would be made somewhat awkward by the rigidity of some
lojban, for example since (AFAIK) all lojban words end in vowels and start
in consonants it would restrict the grid designs, etc, quite a bit. Only
using gismu may also be troublesome since they have other restrictions
(cvccv or ccvcv IIRC).

I think, though, that it would be an interesting exercise. Does anyone
have any reasons why this is not practical? Or has someone else already
done this? I could not find any reference to it anywhere.

TIA

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George Foot <mert0407@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Merton College, Oxford