Model for literature

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Model for literature

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Gah why do I have ideas I want to share just when I said I was leaving??? Oh, how the world works.
Anyways, I don't think I'd not be able to share this, even though it's just an idea thing. It's a model for 'literature levels' for anyone who wants to learn tp or write something in tp. I'm basing it off of these lessons http://bknight0.myweb.uga.edu/toki/lesson/lesson0.html , and I guess if this model ever took shape with new learners then it would sooner or later be adapted to the official lessons when they arrive.

There's 3 levels of whatever you want to call them; 1 2 3, beginner intermediate advanced, apprentice wizard sage, whatever gets used by you guys. I prefer 'basic' 'advanced' and 'full' myself. The lessons are split along these levels. I've left out lessons 1, 2 and 18. Every 5 lessons represent another 'level'.

Unfortunately I can't put the MS Excel file with all the fancy labels on here, so I'll just copy and paste the word lists, ignore the numbers:
Basic:
anpa 7
e 4
ijo 4
ike 5
ilo 4
insa 7
jaki 5
Jan-03
jo 4
kama 6
kepeken 6
kili 4
kiwen 6
kon 6
lawa 5
len 5
li 3
lili 5
lon 6
lukin 4
ma 4
mi 3
moku 3
monsi 7
mute 5
nasa 5
ni 4
ona 4
pakala 4
pana 6
pipi 4
poki 6
pona 3 9
sama 7
seli 5
sewi 5 7
sina 3
suli 3
suno 3
tan 7
tawa 6
telo 3
toki 6 9
tomo 5
unpa 4
utala 5
wile 4



Advanced:
ala 8
ale/ali 8
anpa 7
ante 12
anu 12
awen 9
e 4
en 12
ijo 4
ike 5
ilo 4
insa 7
jaki 5
Jan-03
jo 4
kalama 11
kama 6
ken 8
kepeken 6
kili 4
kin 12
kiwen 6
kon 6
kulupu 11
lape 8
lawa 5
len 5
lete 12
li 3
lili 5
lipu 12
lon 6
lukin 4
ma 4
mama 9
mani 12
meli 9
mi 3
moku 3
monsi 7
mu 9
musi 8
mute 5
nasa 5
nasin 11
ni 4
nimi 9
o 9
olin 10
ona 4
pakala 4
pali 8
pana 6
pi 11
pilin 12
pipi 4
poka 7
poki 6
pona 3 9
sama 7
seli 5
seme 10
sewi 5 7
sin 10
sina 3
sona 8
suli 3
suno 3
supa 10
suwi 10
tan 7
taso 12
tawa 6
telo 3
toki 6 9
tomo 5
unpa 4
utala 5
walo 13
wawa 8
wile 4

Full is everything. This method gives a clear indication to the learner whether or not he/she should be able to understand a text in tp, depending on whether or not he/she is learning with the same lessons.
Here is an example:

Random poem-y thing (Basic)
suno li lukin e telo.
suno li lukin e mi.
telo li pona. suno li pona.
mi lukin sama pipi.

Short story thing, Advanced:
mi toki tawa sina. taso, sina toki ala tawa mi tan seme? sina nasa. mi moku ala e kili sina. sina pilin ike kin tan seme? a... mi sona. mi moku e suno. ni li tan.

Aaaand time is ticking on, there are plenty of 'full' texts out there. Bye!
ale li pona. :)
sina o sona e ni.
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Re: Model for literature

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Ah! A new algorithm for readability scores!

So if a score was assigned to each word in a reading, the average would be the average level- which would be about 2. That doesn't sound right.
So instead let's score each word less than target as +1 and each word over target as -1, and then we'd get something that would allow sorting a bunch of texts by level.
e.g. 1 3 4 1. = (word from level 1, 3, 4 and 1) => when targeting level 1, => +1 -1 -1 +1 = 0, which is less than a "perfect" score of 4.

If I ever write an app that calcs the score, it should also return a list of the "hard" words, so that the text could be re-written to avoid them.
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Re: Model for literature

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That sounds amazing :D
pona mute!
ale li pona. :)
sina o sona e ni.
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