mi stidi lo nu kelci la'o zoi ze mesedj frym dip speis zoi

.i lo nu pilno la lojban cu na tcila le kelproga .i ku'i pe'i lo jbopre cu nelci le kelproga .i sa'u lo nu lo bangu cu selnei cu selfi'a

What video games do you recommend for lojbanists?

I recommend playing The Message From Deep Space

The use of Lojban isn't in the game. Still, I think Lojbanists like it. Simply put, the appreciation of language is among its themes.

Hopefully my Lojban isn't completely broken, I always have to look things up when I write anything more complicated than "I like cats"

I collected as many recent videos in or about Lojban as I could find, excluding songs that were clearly low-effort or auto-generated...so there's no "splita lo blaci," if you remember the Reddit post about that one.

(This also includes late 2025, by mistake, but I really want to keep the podcast and the plate of cheesy pasta shells on there.)

I noticed that many people are interested in the topic of cmavo in Lojban, specifically abstractors like nu, ka, du'u, and others. Today, I will try to explain lo nu, le nu, and nu—what the difference is between them and how to use them. Let's start with the fact that nu means "process." When we want to say that this is the subject's process (that is, a fact), we say lo nu or le nu. For example: mi djica lo nu mi cilre lo jbobau. Translation: I want the process of my learning the Lojban language. Or more simply: I want to learn the Lojban language. What is the difference between le nu and lo nu? It's easy to remember: when we want to point specifically to something, we use le. Example 1: le mlatu ku melbi—meaning this specific cat is beautiful. Example 2: le prenu cu pensi lo prenu—this specific person is thinking about a person. Thus, le nu refers to this specific process, while lo nu is more general.And what does nu on its own mean? This thing is highly situational and rarely used. You won't see it very often, but you still need to know it. A bare nu is used when you want to talk about a process that exists merely as an idea or by its nature, rather than as an actual fact. For instance, lo nu tcidu is denoted as "that which is a process of reading"—the process as an actual fact. On the other hand, nu tcidu without lo simply means "to be a process of reading" or "to manifest as a process of reading"—that is, something highly abstract and mental.The usage of nu is actually very context-dependent. Its meaning can shift slightly depending on its position in a sentence, but I’ve already covered its main core meaning above.

Explanations for beginners. If you want to add something, feel free to share it in the comments!

Hey everyone, I've been wondering how hard it is for Lojban beginners to grasp abstractors like 'nu', 'ka', etc. I'm thinking about making a post with a simple, clear explanation. If you guys are interested, I’ll explain most of the abstractors in my next post.

I was trying to look for more reflexive pronouns (vo'V) for use in a 14-argument experimental predicate (jbolotomi). But I cannot find ones past #5.

You can easily generalize to #6 (vo'y), but for #7 you need a 7th vowel. Same for #8, and all others up to 14.

So, I have to ask.

What is the eighth vowel?

I am studying from the book and found the time and space tenses very interesting.

I find the translation for example 10.28 and 10.29 a bit ackward. especially that they mean different things. can anyone comment ona more natural way for an English speaker to understand these?

Example 10.28. 

With ca instead of ba , Example 10.28 becomes Example 10.29 ,

Example 10.29. 

https://la-lojban.github.io/uncll/romoi/xhtml_section_chunks/section-interval-sizes.html

I am reading from “The complete lojban”. The writer gave an example of the description sumti. the example being

“mi tavla do le tavla.”

I speak to you about the speaker. so the selbri is referencing something which is part of the definition of the selbrI.

so How would one say, “ I give the gift to you”?

I am supposing one would say

MI dunda le se dunda do.

I’m not sure if that is correct.

if one said , mi dunda le dunda do, wouldn’t that mean, I give the giver to you?

if anyone has insight into this that would be helpful. And is there a specific chapter which addresses this?

...Okay it's just the lyrics, and first you have to go through my strange picture of Shrek/la crek. plus my long story about Smash Mouth/la maxmol. but other than that, YES, no longer will you be FORCED to put up with the English lyrics for All Star/la tarzan.

Translation Note: I try to use "pe'a" to mark figurative language or "ba'u" to mark exaggeration whenever I can, but I skimped to keep the rhythm of the song. I also missed out on some puns.

Also:

• Here's a cover of "All-Star" in Kotava, another conlang. This is not mine! tetsusquared is legendary.
• Lyrics for "The Logical Song" by Supertramp. Not sure why this wasn't the first thing people attempted to translate (just kidding) (zo'osai)

A station waits for the train, and keeps waiting. Includes subtitles in both English and Lojban.

NOTE: Audio was recorded on a cheap phone and I'm realizing now that I mispronounced "va'o" as "va'u" (and maybe mispronounced other things too, .i .u'u). I'm hoping the style can somewhat make up for that.

Maybe TikTok reels soon?

https://lensisku.lojban.org/en/valsi/zirpimjauxe

Хотел спросить,а есть люди которые свободно говорят на ложбане?именно,русскоязычные.

Я изучаю ложбан,но к сожалению не могу понять,составление слов ,,rafsi" в ложбане.

Я буду очень благодарен, объяснению.

These are hypothetical gismu forms of digits created to fit with the affixes for numbers and to avoid having to add -mei to number words when used as verbs. Some sounds in the words were also taken from the source languages.

¹The digit A (10) is the only one of these that already has a gismu so its affix is shown alongside dau.

²Both rei and xei exist for E (14), but only xei has a proposed affix. The r in xremi was added to be inclusive to rei.

This makes it easier to express values which do not already have digits and are not round multiples of ten as verbs. For example, being a set of 108, instead of being expressed as panobimei or pavnonbivmei, can be expressed as ctobivba "hundred-eight."

Place value expression is also allowed with this system, so instead of expressing 123 450 006 as parecivomunoki’oxa "one-two-three-four-five-zero-thousands-six," it can be expressed as ctoreldekcibymegykemvonctomumdekyki’okepkemxlavu "(hundred-two-ten-three-million)-(four-hundred-five-ten-thousand)-six." (This is obviously longer but at least it is clearer which digits are the thousands, millions, etc. and this can be useful to break down larger numbers beyond using just ki’o.) Since Lojban only has roots for powers of ten, it would only work for base ten numbers, but it would make it clearer that these are base ten, so you would not get the same kind of variability you get with panono (which depending on the base will not always correspond to xecto).

Taken from vlasisku, not including any ones that have "proposed rafsi" already stated or any rafsi already proposed for another experimental term.

bonta: -bot-

borma: -bom-

boske: -bos-, -bok-

brodi/brodo/brodu¹: -bod-

bruci: -buc-

bunxa: -bux-

ckopi: -cop-, -kop-

cmevo: -mev-

cokte: -cok-, -cot-

conka/tcoka: -cok-

cpixa: -cix-

creze: -rez-, -ce’e-

cumba: -cub-

divzi: -div-

fanji: -faj-

fibra/fizbu: -fib-

fidna: -fid-

flipo: -lip-

fuvla: -fuv-

galki: -gak-

garja: -gaj-

gelga: -gel-, -geg-

glife: -gif-

glosa: -gos-

gluli: -gul-, -lul-

jbobo: -bob-

jenje: -jej-

jmedu: -med-

kavzi/kazmi: -kaz-

kekti/kenka: -kek-

kinfi/kirfa: -kif-

kloje: -lo’e-

konve/korvo: -kov-

kordu: -kod-

kroxo: -kox-, -rox-

lenga: -leg-

lokra: -lok-

lucpa: -luc-

majvu: -jvu-

medzo: -med-, -mez-

mespo: -mep-

metfo: -mef-

modju: -mod-

moxna: -mox-

nedlo: -ned-

nerde: -ned-, -ne’e-

nocni: -noc-

nonmu: -nom-, -no’u-

norgo: -nog-, -no’o-

nudle: -nud-

nuktu/nunmu: -nu’u-

nusna: -nus-

pocli: -poc-

pombo: -pom-

prova²: -rov-

puvza: -puz-

ronte: -ro’e-

sengi: -seg-

sesre: -ses-

skudi: -kud-

sniju: -nij-

tovla: -tov-

vente: -vet-

vepre: -vep-

vetno: -vet-, -ve’o-

vidvi: -viv-

volve: -vov-, -vo’e-

vukna: -vuk-

xaxre: -xax-

xexto: -xex-

xlobi: -xob-, -xo’i-

xoltu: -xot-, -xo’u-

xorlo: -xor-, -xo’o-

xugri: -xug-

xumbe: -xub-

zanxi: -zax-

zejvo: -zej-

zvuzu: -zvu-, -zuz-, -zu’u-

¹The brodV series have been in the official standard, but recently all except broda got moved to experimental (does anybody know why?)

²This could take the rafsi -pov- but one lujvo has it as an experimental rafsi for po’o.

I would really want to see some of these have new rafsi but I am not asking that all of these get one. Because several of these words are just not going to be used in compounds.

Why are CCVC- and CVCC- forms used for type-3 fu’ivla when there is a simpler CVC- rafsi that works? For example the vlasisku dictionary has jinmrmalume and tricrkorilu but no jimrmalume and ricrkorilu.

Also, I fixed a bunch of grammatical and word-choice errors!

I was working on building a study guide but looking at a study guide for a different language (norsk). And I realized that words like 'where' do a lot of heavy lifting in English and Norwegian.

This led me to trying to write a page on how to get the effect of 'where' in lojban.

Where [often x_3 in gismu]

- place : ma stuzi

- direction: ma pluta / ma jalge

- state condition: ma tcini

Is there a resource for where/from/of/when to lojban gismu? It feels like fi is one of those heavy lifters for these types of connectors.

Alternatively, is there a rationale for the fa fe fi fo fu common use cases.

I think I understand lo zdani, it’s very straightforward. But while learning about place conversions (se, te, ve, xe), I’m really struggling to understand: 1. Which is used and why. 2. Why this is possible at all.