Re: [lojban] Re: y: what is it good for?

[jcowan@reutershealth.com]

Philip Newton scripsit:

> What about zoi? Would that be allowed as a zoi delimiter?
> 
> I seem to recall reading somewhere that it was a good "safe" choice as 
> a zoi delimiter since, though I don't remember the reason.

I've always liked it: you can view it as zoizoi ... zoi brackets.
It's good for quoting English in particular, as it's a sound that's
unlikely to occur, and it occurs in writing pretty much only in
"trapezoid" and friends and in the era names like "Cenozoic".

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