From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 09 20:59:18 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GB1hW-00028M-7H for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:59:18 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GB1hT-00028C-P7 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:59:17 -0700 Received: from [192.168.25.19] (unknown [192.168.25.19]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F678CD813 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:59:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Foreign strings Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:58:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44DA9B36.4080400@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <44DA9B36.4080400@houston.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608092358.57133.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 3486 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wednesday 09 August 2006 22:34, Bob A wrote: > Is it the case that foreign strings are surrounded by the first letter > of their language? For example, I often see something like 'gy John gy'. > Would it be correct to write "dy Johannes dy'? It's usually done that way, but sometimes you can't. If there's a Vietnamese word "vy" (I don't know Vietnamese, but it's a plausible word, from what I've seen of the language), you can't quote it using "vy" as the delimiter. {lo me'andi cu me la'o ly Lythraceae ly} in jbofihe gives an error if you say {ly ly thraceae}, but not {ly Ly thraceae} or {ly lythraceae}. I would use a different delimiter if quoting "Lythraceae". ta'o mi ca denpa le nu le me'andi cu bredi kei fo le nu mi skagau lei kerfa mu'o mi'e .pier.