Some conventions used when talking about Lojban in English, for instance on IRC or in mailing lists.
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{…} used to quote Lojban text. Alternatively Lojban text is written in bold.
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la xalbo:
- These are the ones that I usually use.
| *{…}
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used for incorrect Lojban text.
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| ?{…}
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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).
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| !{…}
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used for text that parses, but has a surprising or wrong meaning (one not intended).
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| […]
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used to indicate words (usually terminators or cu) that can be included or omitted without changing the parse.
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| -…-
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used for quoting rafsi, like -mib-, the rafsi for mi
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| "…"
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used for quoting English. The ",", "?", and "!" modifiers can be applied if needed.
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| ⟨…⟩
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used for quoting sequences of characters.
| No, you couldn't use ⟨la⟩ in a cmevla pre-Dot Side.
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| †
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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.
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| ‡
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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?)
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"All‡" is su'oso'a.
"All†" is so'a.
For other loglangs: