[lojban-beginners] Re: Referring to selma'o in Lojban

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 19 August 2009 20:15:51 Joshua Choi wrote:
> The selma'o seem to have non-Lojbanic names like "BAhE". How does one
> refer to a selma'o in Lojban, short of quoting?

I just say "zo ba'e" (mu'a zo za'e cmavo zo ba'e). The weird capitalization is 
an artifact of writing the grammar in a computer language.

For rafsi, though, I quote them with "zoi ry. ... .ry". zo poi nerbrima'o .i 
zoi ry. poi .ry. rafsi zo porsi .i zo poi na du zoi ry. poi .ry.

mu'omi'e pier.