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               bu  | 
            
               BU  | 
            
               makes previous word into a lerfu word  | 
          
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               ga'e  | 
            
               BY  | 
            
               upper case shift  | 
          
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               to'a  | 
            
               BY  | 
            
               lower case shift  | 
          
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               tau  | 
            
               LAU  | 
            
               case-shift next lerfu word only  | 
          
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               lo'a  | 
            
               BY  | 
            
               Latin/Lojban alphabet shift  | 
          
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               ge'o  | 
            
               BY  | 
            
               Greek alphabet shift  | 
          
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               je'o  | 
            
               BY  | 
            
               Hebrew alphabet shift  | 
          
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               jo'o  | 
            
               BY  | 
            
               Arabic alphabet shift  | 
          
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               ru'o  | 
            
               BY  | 
            
               Cyrillic alphabet shift  | 
          
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               se'e  | 
            
               BY  | 
            
               following digits are a character code  | 
          
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               na'a  | 
            
               BY  | 
            
               cancel all shifts  | 
          
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               zai  | 
            
               LAU  | 
            
               following lerfu word specifies alphabet  | 
          
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               ce'a  | 
            
               LAU  | 
            
               following lerfu word specifies font  | 
          
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               lau  | 
            
               LAU  | 
            
               following lerfu word is punctuation  | 
          
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               tei  | 
            
               TEI  | 
            
               start compound lerfu word  | 
          
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               foi  | 
            
               FOI  | 
            
               end compound lerfu word  | 
          
Note that LAU cmavo must be followed by a BY cmavo or the equivalent, where “equivalent” means: either any Lojban word followed by bu, another LAU cmavo (and its required sequel), or a tei…foi compound cmavo.