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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Articles to Refer to Words Themselves
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> I'm baffled as to which articles, or abstractions, I would use to
> specify a word itself, and not its meaning.  [...]

Various people have said various things, mostly using {zo} in one way
or another, such as

> 	zo vol rafsi zo volfi

> So, it would give: {zo vol cu rafsi zo vofli}.

Here, what is to prevent these from being (mis)parsed as {zo volra ...}
and {zo volcu ...}?  Is this what

> Correct except that rafsi are not, in general, valid Lojban words.
and
> The CLL (chapter 19) says that for {zo}, "The word must be
> morphologically legal",

are referring to?  Robin does say that

> With {vol} you can use zo.  [but with some other rafsi you can't]

which confuses me, because I can't see what stops it from attaching to
the next consonant and vowel, when (as above) the following word begins
with a CV pattern, to form a pseudo-gismu.  Obviously I'm lacking some
sort of clue here; can anyone point me in the right direction?

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