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Chapter 19: Putting It All Together: Notes on the Structure of Lojban Texts

15. No more to say: FAhO

The following cmavo is discussed in this section:

   fa'o    FAhO    end of text
The cmavo “fa'o” (of selma'o FAhO) is the usually omitted marker for the end of a text; it can be used in computer interaction to indicate the end of input or output, or for explicitly giving up the floor during a discussion. It is outside the regular grammar, and the machine parser takes it as an unconditional signal to stop parsing unless it is quoted with “zo” or with “lo'u ... le'u”. In particular, it is not used at the end of subordinate texts quoted with “lu ... li'u” or parenthesized with “to ... toi”.
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