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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 luge up] a "Level 0 fu'ivla" by writing an English (or other [[jbocre: natlang|natlang]] word) and preceding it with a "-".
* [[jbocre: Lojban Rock Lyrics|Lojban Rock Lyrics]]
* [[jbocre: Lojban Anthem|Lojban Anthem]]


For example:  ''la djordj. buc. cu -president ubu.sy.''
* lenas: see [http://www.lojban.org/lists/lojban-beginners/msg01434.html ojban-beginners mailing list, message 1434].
 
* 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]]
 
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Without condoning this practice (mi'e [[User:Nick Nicholas|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 [[jbocre: JL|JL]] article, demonstrating the folly of [[jbocre: Anglan|Anglan]] by replacing all the brivla in a couple of paragraphs of Lojban text with [[jbocre: hyphen|hyphen]]-prefixed English words; it was just as much jabberwocky as before.
 
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''xrukykai carmi'' (nago'i .i za'e se zombi)

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