X-Digest-Num: 3 Message-ID: <44114.3.27.959273823@eGroups.com> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 22:34:38 -0500 (EST) From: John Cowan Subject: Re: quoting non-lojban X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 27 Content-Length: 924 Lines: 26 la djan. poi drata cusku di'e > I have a brief question concerning Lojban quotation. The cmavo 'zo' > can be used to quote a single lojban word; but what about a singe > non-lojban word? Does this need to be surrounded by cmavo? If so, what > cmavo? Note that the following word may have non-lojbanic alphabetic > characters. There is no mechanism to quote a single non-Lojban word, since Lojban engines don't understand how to break non-Lojban text into words. (Before you start to mumble about space characters, Thai doesn't use 'em, and doing line-breaking in Thai requires a full Thai morphology algorithm.) Therefore it's "zoi (any single Lojban word) (pause) (non-Lojban text) (pause) (same Lojban word)", where the single word is not allowed to appear in the text. If it's a name rather than a quotation, use "la'o" instead of "zoi". -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.