[lojban-beginners] Re: Dictionary output

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 6/22/2009 18:29:09 Eastern Daylight Time, jjllambias@gmail.com writes:


> 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.
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes


ki'e
Thanks for the clarification.

mu'o mi'e stevon