[lojban-beginners] Re: Dictionary output

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 6/22/2009 15:26:24 Eastern Daylight Time, pretoriusjf@gmail.com writes:


> coi roi do
>
> zoi
>
> Apologies, my Lojban sucks too much to ask questions in it just yet, I'm working on it...
>
> I've been using the dictionary server at port 2628 of www.lojban.org to look up various words - and I've come across something I don't understand.  I thought that a given brivla would always have its sumti numbered with the same symbol, such as
> > x1 comes/goes to destination x2 from origin x3 via route x4 using means/vehicle x5.
>
> However, look at the output I got for li'avro:
>
> > ...
> > Definition: v1 is an exit out of c2.
> > ...
>
> What bothers me is that it's apparantly using two different symbols for the same selbri... am I missing something obvious here?
>
> zoi
>
> mu'o mi'e iu'an


coi iu'an

It looks like you're surrounding your English text with "zoi" ... "zoi" to make it Lojban.  That's fine.  I encourage you to use Lojban as much as possible.

The way "zoi" works, though, is that it signals a non-Lojban text coming next, but the text itself is surrounded by a syllable not included in that text.  So your text above could be given as "zoi gy. [non-Lojban text] gy."  "gy" is often chosen to hint that the text is in English ("glico"), but any syllable will do, as long as it's not part of the text itself.

mu'o mi'e stevon