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Re: [lojban] Re: lojban-list Digest V4 #181

Jorge Llambías wrote:

On 8/26/05, Aleksej R. Serdyukov <deletesoftware@yandex.ru> wrote:

Will {zai basna bu tcita bu} work to mark that?

In what context?

I'd thought that zai . . shows that, since this place, the text will be
using the alphabet specified by it?
Not the text, just the lerfu that come after it. The alphabet used to write the text is not specified within the text. Alphabet shifts really don't have 
much use in the language.


.y. .uinai So it's impossible to specify the orphography?..


{zai} converts the following lerfu or tei-foi group into an
alphabet shift, so you'd probably want
{zai tei basna bu tcita bu foi} or {zai basnytcita bu}.

The list says "zai" is a 2-word letteral shift. So does jbofi'e think.
Yes, {zai} is the first word, and the immediately following lerfu or tei-foi group is the second "word". 

Er.. isn't it:

zai [alphabet name] [1st word in the alphabet] [2nd word in the alphabet]

?

What's the use of shifting an alphabet of one word to unspecified?

Or rather:
zai [alphabet indicator letter] [a letter meaning a letter in the alphabet]
(according to what jbofihe says:
0[{<(1zai a bu)1 e bu> BOI} VAU])0
)


It's an edited alphabet, isn't it?


But what will you use it for? When would it be needed?


It looks better.
And I had thought that zai was for switching Lojban orthographies.