[lojban-beginners] Re: Dictionary output

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 6/22/09, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Not a syllable, it has to be a full Lojban word. It can be a
one-syllable word, like "gy", or a many-syllable word, for example: ""
zoi clanyvalsi ... clanyvalsi". It can't be a syllable that is not a
valid Lojban word, so "zoi gli ... gli" doesn't work, because the
syllable "gli" is not a valid Lojban word.

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