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No news on X4B?
--- In engelang@yahoogroups.com, "gleki.arxokuna" wrote:
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> I know that la xorban ca pu'o bangu
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> However, I don't care about the phonology and the sounding.
> Just update the textbook every time you change something.
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> The textbook is a must because you will know what needs to be added or fixed in the language.
> btw, if the grammar is really simple there will be no need in huge reference grammar book. X4B and the Complete Xorban Language can be the same book.
> And writing such book will accelerate the development of the language.
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> --- In engelang@yahoogroups.com, "John E. Clifford" wrote:
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> > Well, it would be nice to have a good outline of what the constructors actually have decided on and why and where they are moving on to next. But, at least officially, there is no language yet; the various apparent sentences you see are dummies standing in for sentences which will appear when phonology and morphology get dealt with. Unfortunately, it appears that many of these nonce forms have already become entrenched and will be hard to replace with different, more rational forms at a later time.
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> I don't think so. It will be possible to create numerous clones of Xorban.
> Mandarin-like clone with tones.
> tokipona-like clone with reduced phonology
> Ithkuil-style clone with very short words
> Gangnam-style ...whatever
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> > Sent from my iPad
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> > On Oct 22, 2012, at 12:12 PM, "gleki.arxokuna" wrote:
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> > > Sorry. I didn't follow the discussion of Xorban when it was started.
> > > And now the thread is so huge that I can't read it all.
> > > So is anybody planning to write a tutorial for beginners, i.e. noobs, i.e. "normal" pe'a people?
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> > > You might wanna take L4B as the starting point for this.
> > > After all, if it's true that the grammar of xorban is more simple than of tokipona, such tutorial might appear to be very short. However, I want many many examples in it, from simple examples like "How are you?", "Where is the nearest hotel" to tricky like {fe la boris poi nolraitru pu mo'u catra fa la'a lo dotco sepi'o la'a lo vindu}
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