writing conventions

Some conventions used when talking about Lojban in English, for instance on IRC or in mailing lists. <tab class="wikitable"> {…} used to quote Lojban text. Alternatively Lojban text is written in bold. </tab>

la xalbo:

• These are the ones that I usually use.

*{…}		used for incorrect Lojban text.
?{…}		used for questionable text (either a subject of debate, or to quote without asserting correctness, for instance, asking a student what, if anything, the text would mean).
!{…}		used for text that parses, but has a surprising or wrong meaning (one not intended).
[…]		used to indicate words (usually terminators or {cu}) that can be included or omitted without changing the parse.
-…-		used for quoting rafsi, like -mib-, the rafsi for {mi}
"…"		used for quoting English. The , ?, and ! modifiers can be applied if needed.
⟨…⟩		used for quoting sequences of characters. "No, you couldn't use ⟨la⟩ in a cmevla pre-Dot Side."
†		used to qualify a statement, to mean "This isn't actually true, but it's close enough for the current purposes." "cmevla can only† be used as names, but not all names are cmevla."
‡		used for "I don't know whether this is actually precisely true or not, but it's close enough for now." "You use ZOI, then any‡ Lojban word as a delimiter…" (Really? What about {bu}? What about {si}? What about {fa'o}?)

"All‡" is su'oso'a.

"All†" is so'a.

For other loglangs:

<…>	used to quote Loglan text.
~…~	used to quote gua\spi text.
\…\	used to quote toki pona text.