Orthology Deck

"Where are your Keys?" is usually played with two or more people, with at least one person fluent in the target language, and at least one (possibly different) person familiar with how to play the game.

The fluent speaker is able to help other players with their pronunciation and grammar, and the ?core conversation assumes that you're starting from this point.

It is, however, highly unlikely you have access to a fluent speaker of Lojban. One of my goals with this website is that it be a bootstrap technique for learning Lojban. That it is a tool you can use to be able to learn Lojban without the benefit of regular access to a fluent speaker.

To that end, I've prepared the first in a series of decks designed to be used as reference material during play. This material replaces the guidance normally provided by the fluent speaker.

Standard "Where are your Keys?" does not include a game component focused purely on orthology, phonology, or morphology. Those elements are learned as needed during play, often after acquiring sufficient fluency to speak about linguistic issues in the target language.

Here, we don't have the benefit of a fluent speaker. Linguistic questions about the language--the kind of questions you might ask before being able to use le vajrai se tadni, will have to be discovered in a different way.

Unlike other elements of the game, this material is not arranged in learning order. It is designed as reference material by someone already familiar with it.

The paradox of providing reference material for a fluent speaker that doesn't exist is a task that will wait for another day. We're going to have to extend the game, and develop a playful way to learn this material! Until then, enjoy the Orthology Deck:

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