History: zoi

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zoi one of two words in selmo'a ZOI (the other being la'o). zoi quotes a non-Lojban phrase. zoi is one of the ((Magic Words)). zoi can be a really useful quoting mechanism when you don't know the proper Lojban word for something. ''la'e zoi gy. ''__foo__'' .gy'' can stand in for the concept represented by __foo__. ! Choice of delimiter for zoi The choice of delimiter for zoi is both a stylist and informational choice. The only requirement is that it not a word that appears in the quoted text. The following delimiters can be used to communicate specific intent: || .fanva. | This zoi quote is a translation of some preceding material. .glic. | A variation of .gy. .gy. | This zoi quote is quoting English text. .kliz. | This zoi delimiter suggests the user is quoting Klingon. Klingon writing has no ''k'' or ''z'', and Klingon speech has nothing confusable for ''z''. As well, .kliz. is reminiscent of the language name. .url. | This zoi quote is quoting a url. .xlali. | This guard word suggests (but does not require that) the speaker doesn't like the quotation. .xy. | A good guard word for English as the letter combination is rare and it is a non-English phoneme. It may sound like "uh huh," however. || A long text should really use a long and unlikely word as a delimiter, to remove the possibility of it appearing in the text. You are limited to using Lojban words as your delimiter in zoi. Punctuation, like "" or <> are not valid lojban words. If you use punctuation in a zoi quote, you may be understood, you won't be speaking proper Lojban. !! Interaction with other Magic Words For every magic word, the interaction with all other magic words is defined. This table covers all interactions of zoi+word, where word is any of the magic words, both alone and within their own grammatical contexts. || bu | zoi bu | [[ungrammatical] | zoi binds bu as the first delimiter, but does not find a second delimiter. | fa'o | zoi fa'o | [[ungrammatical] | zoi binds fa'o as the first delimiter, but does not find a second delimiter to bind. | lo'u | zoi lo'u | [[ungrammatical] | zoi binds lo'u as the first delimiter, but does not find a second delimiter to bind. | le'u | zoi le'u | [[ungrammatical] | zoi binds le'u as the first delimiter, but does not find a second delimiter to bind. | sa | zoi sa | [[ungrammatical] | zoi binds sa as the first delimiter, but does not find a second delimiter to bind. | si | zoi si | [[ungrammatical] | zoi binds si as the first delimiter, but does not find a second delimiter to bind. | su | zoi su | [[ungrammatical] | zoi binds su as the first delimiter, but does not find a second delimiter to bind. | zei | zoi zei | [[ungrammatical] | zoi binds zei as the first delimiter, but does not find a second delimiter to bind. | zo | zoi zo | [[ungrammatical] | zoi binds zo as the first delimiter, but does not find a second delimiter to bind. | zoi | zoi | [[ungrammatical] | zoi does not find a delimiter to bind. | | zoi zoi | [[ungrammatical] | zoi binds zoi as the first delimiter, but does not find a second delimiter to bind. || !! Questions about interaction with other Magic Words __Q__: __A__: !! See Also * ((zo)) for quoting a single Lojban word. * ((la'o)) for quoting a non-Lojban name. * [http://dag.github.com/cll/19/10/|CLL 19.10 More on quotations: ZO, ZOI]

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Thu 12 of Jun, 2014 21:18 GMT mukti from 216.194.27.154	8
Mon 21 of Feb, 2011 00:42 GMT alyn.post from 68.35.166.154 answer so Q&A, add some more bu cases.	7
Mon 21 of Feb, 2011 00:22 GMT alyn.post from 68.35.166.154 fix table formatting.	6
Thu 10 of Feb, 2011 21:53 GMT alyn.post from 173.10.243.253 Add additional zoi cases.	5
Thu 10 of Feb, 2011 17:25 GMT alyn.post from 173.10.243.253 zoi is not the only word in selma'o ZOI, la'o is also there.	4
Wed 09 of Feb, 2011 21:14 GMT alyn.post from 68.35.165.60 basic chart of ungrammatical uses of zoi	3
Wed 09 of Feb, 2011 18:53 GMT alyn.post from 68.35.165.60 clean up page up to Magic Words page standard.	2
Fri 30 of Nov, 2001 12:31 GMT admin from admin created from phpwiki import	1

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