But How Well Do You *Really* Know Lojban?

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How Well Do You Really Know Lojban?

Test your knowledge of Lojban with this engaging quiz! Dive into the intricacies of the language and discover how well you understand the complex rules and structures that make Lojban unique.

Featuring 16 carefully crafted questions, you will explore:

Basic and advanced Lojban vocabulary
Language structures and grammatical rules
Experimental cmavo and gismu

16 Questions4 MinutesCreated by ThinkingWord321

In the old days of CLL lojban, way before {ra'oi} was a thing, people would sometimes quote rafsi with {zo}, but this didn't always work because of CCV rafsi. ...And only those?

Yes, only those

No, also some others

Oh joy, the madness of pre-Dotside. If I said {coislair} in pre-Dotside, what would be the modern lojban equivalent?

Coi .s. lai .r.

Coi .slair.

.coislair.

.cois. lai .r.

The only thing worse than pre-Dotside? The dreaded... S l a k a - b u. According to CLL, which of these is FALSE about the infamous "comma"?

The comma never forms minimal pairs.

Care must be taken to pronounce the comma differently than the apostrophe.

A comma is not the only way to make a syllable begin with a (pure, not semi) vowel.

Commas are not necessary to make consonants syllabic.

Okay, that was ridiculously picky. Let's go back to slightly more normal lojban. How to say "both this and that" in zantufa? (Multiple options may be correct.)

Ge ti gi ta

Je gi ti gi ta

Gi je ti gi ta

Ga je ti gi ta

More zantufa goodness! What does {mi na djica lo nu mi badri .iki'ubo mi gleki} mean?

"It is false that: 'I want to be sad because I'm happy.'

"I don't want to be sad. That's because I'm happy."

"I don't want to 'be sad because I'm happy.'"

Let's say you wanted to say {mi sipna zo'e}, but slipped and said {mi sipna zoi} instead. How do you use {si} to correct yourself? (Multiple options may be correct.)

Mi sipna zoi si zo'e

Mi sipna zoi si si zo'e

Mi sipna zoi si si si zo'e

Mi sipna zoi .beb. .oisaise'i .beb. Si si si si zo'e

Mi sipna zoi .beb. .oisaise'i .beb. Si zo'e

{.i .abu .i by .i cy .i ri xi ni'umu .i ri xi ci .i ri xi re .i ri xi xa .i ri xi mu .i ri xi vo .i ri xi rau .i ri xi ze goi ko'a}. What is ko'a?

.abu

Not enough information

Time for good old bloated gismu! What is {lo ve melbi be fo ko'a}?

Conditions under which ko'a is beautiful

Aspect in which ko'a is beautiful

Standard by which ko'a is beautiful

Melbi4 doesn't exist

Which one of these means: x1 is the means of transport, x2 the route, x3 the origin and x4 the destination of goer x5?

Se te ve xe klama

Se ve se xe klama

Xe ve te se klama

Se ve se te xe te klama

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