History: Leading Hyphen Convention

Source of version: 1 (current)

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 [http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/kluge.html|kluge 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|Nora)) who pointed this out. -- ((John Cowan)) ---- Without condoning this practice (mi'e nitcion), the first time I remember seeing this was [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban/message/9930] . 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. ---- ''xrukykai carmi'' (nago'i .i za'e se zombi)