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For example:  ''la djordj. buc. cu -president ubu.sy.''
For example:  ''la djordj. buc. cu -president ubu.sy.''


* And to pile la osas. on la pelion., you can actually enunciate these things by pronouncing the leading hyphen as Lojban "iy", one of the two reserved diphthongs: /ladZordZ?buS?Suj@prEz@dEnt?ubu?s@/.  I think it was [[jbocre: Nora LeChevalier ora|Nora LeChevalier ora]] who pointed this out.  -- [[jbocre: John Cowan|John Cowan]]
* And to pile la osas. on la pelion., you can actually enunciate these things by pronouncing the leading hyphen as Lojban "iy", one of the two reserved diphthongs: /ladZordZ?buS?Suj@prEz@dEnt?ubu?s@/.  I think it was [[Nora LeChevalier ora|Nora LeChevalier ora]] who pointed this out.  -- [[jbocre: John Cowan|John Cowan]]


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Revision as of 14:53, 23 March 2014

When you are too lazy to look up or create a selbri, or you are writing an example and think using the right brivla would just obscure the point, you can luge up a "Level 0 fu'ivla" by writing an English (or other natlang word) and preceding it with a "-".

For example: la djordj. buc. cu -president ubu.sy.

  • And to pile la osas. on la pelion., you can actually enunciate these things by pronouncing the leading hyphen as Lojban "iy", one of the two reserved diphthongs: /ladZordZ?buS?Suj@prEz@dEnt?ubu?s@/. I think it was Nora LeChevalier ora who pointed this out. -- John Cowan

Without condoning this practice (mi'e nitcion), the first time I remember seeing this was [1] . John, did you devise this convention, or is it older?

  • It was first used AFAIK in a JL article, demonstrating the folly of Anglan by replacing all the brivla in a couple of paragraphs of Lojban text with hyphen-prefixed English words; it was just as much jabberwocky as before.

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