selskiski

selskiski describes a style of tanru that is the inverse of the usual order of tanru. In other words, the tertau ("noun/verb", metaphorically se skicu thing described) comes before the seltau ("adjective/adverb", metaphorically skicu describer)

Why?

This style has a chief advantage over the normal, English-like ordering of "adjective-noun"; namely, the selbri-unit that describes the subject is uttered first. There is a reason the military uses it (c.f. "Meal, Ready to Eat").

Many languages other than English uses this style of compound-words, e.g. French, Spanish, and Malay.

Note that selskiski does not change lujvo. This is because lujvo are already defined words, and as such rearranging all the rafsi would be impractical. Furthermore, some decisions for rafsi assignment were based on the regular "skiselski" ordering, e.g. the numbers have CVC rafsi, but no CVV, which makes it impossible to reverse lujvo like pavdei.

In small doses

The Eulojban cmavo keu (selma'o KE) signifies a selskiski tanru. No ortho-Lojban form as been decided upon yet... maybe ke'oi.

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The real thing

If you are ready to try selskiski for real, one can use the Eulojban cmavo ke'eu (ortho-Lojban ke'e'u or jo'au selskiski) to indicate that all subsequent tanru are selskiski style. Use ke'eunai (ke'e'unai / jo'aunai selskiski / jo'au skiselski) to switch back.