Re: quoting non-lojban

[John Cowan <cowan@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx]

la djan. poi drata cusku di'e

> I have a brief question concerning Lojban quotation. The cmavo 'zo'
> can be used to quote a single lojban word; but what about a singe
> non-lojban word? Does this need to be surrounded by cmavo? If so, what
> cmavo? Note that the following word may have non-lojbanic alphabetic
> characters.

There is no mechanism to quote a single non-Lojban word, since Lojban
engines don't understand how to break non-Lojban text into words.
(Before you start to mumble about space characters, Thai doesn't
use 'em, and doing line-breaking in Thai requires a full Thai
morphology algorithm.)

Therefore it's "zoi (any single Lojban word) (pause) (non-Lojban text)
(pause) (same Lojban word)", where the single word is not allowed to
appear in the text. If it's a name rather than a quotation, use
"la'o" instead of "zoi".

-- 
John Cowan	cowan@ccil.org
e'osai ko sarji la lojban.