lo skari porsi ku gismu

{lo tadji be fa lo valsi porsi} (Technique: Craig's Lists) is both a technique ({lo tajdi}) and the lists themselves. The "beg, borrow, steal" ({lo se frati porsi}) Craig's List has been sole example of a Lojbanic Craig's List.

Two other lists are taught as part of the Universal Speed Curriculum, "me, mine, you, yours" and "stick, rock, pen, dollar."

Outside of the introductory game, the number of vocabulary lists is bound only by the language. Building these lists is fun for me, as I get to find relationships between words and concepts in Lojban and try to create meaningful lists from them.

Color is often introduced early in play, particularly as the number of players in a single game grows. This way, you can have both a red pen and a blue pen, extending vocabulary to include tanru within the existing fluency of the player.

With that in mind, I've collected the set of gismu that define color and published them as lo skari porsi ku gismu. I've associated ASL signs with each of these colors except {cicna} (cyan) and nukni (magenta). Neither of these colors is described with a single word in ASL.

I will likely settle on "blue green" for {cicna} and "red purple" for {nukni}. I haven't fully decided on this yet, so they currently have no sign associated with them.

Other than that, enjoy speaking about color in Lojban!

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