[lojban-beginners] Re: Articles to Refer to Words Themselves

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 07:40:56PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > I'm baffled as to which articles, or abstractions, I would use to
> > specify a word itself, and not its meaning.  [...]
> 
> Various people have said various things, mostly using {zo} in one way
> or another, such as
> 
> > 	zo vol rafsi zo volfi
> 
> > So, it would give: {zo vol cu rafsi zo vofli}.
> 
> Here, what is to prevent these from being (mis)parsed as {zo volra
> ...} and {zo volcu ...}?  

The space here, or a pause in spoken text.  There should probably be a
"." after vol.

> Is this what
>
> > Correct except that rafsi are not, in general, valid Lojban words.
> > and The CLL (chapter 19) says that for {zo}, "The word must be
> > morphologically legal",
> 
> are referring to?  

No, seperate issue. "vol" is a valid Lojban cmene, and as such can be
quoted with zo.

-Robin

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