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and to italicize the non-English original (see <a href="/wiki/MOS:FOREIGN" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:FOREIGN">MOS:FOREIGN</a>).</b> This is the default behavior of this template: <code>[[Lao language|Lao]]: {{lang|lo-Latn|khwaay}} {{gloss|water buffalo}}</code> produces: <a href="/wiki/Lao_language" title="Lao language">Lao</a>: <span title="Lao-language text"><i lang="lo-Latn">khwaay</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">water buffalo</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span> – without need of any further parameters.</li> <li>When glossing a literal but ambiguous English translation (itself a different kind of gloss), to make the meaning clearer: <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: var(--color-content-added, #006400);"><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_language" title="Vietnamese language">Vietnamese</a>: <i lang="vi">trâu</i> 'water buffalo' (domestic water buffalo, <i><a href="/wiki/Bubalus_bubalis" class="mw-redirect" title="Bubalus bubalis">Bubalus bubalis</a></i>)</span>, since "water buffalo" by itself could be misinterpreted as inclusive of the wild species. This additional kind of gloss is most often put in parentheses (round brackets), and is not italicized in most contexts. (They are italicized or otherwise distinguished in some dictionaries, for distinction from the definition as such.) The typical non-italicized use is the second of this template's basic functions: <code>... playing billiards {{gloss|mode=def|cue sports on a pocketless table}} ...</code> produces: ... playing billiards <span class="gloss-quot">(</span><span class="gloss-text">cue sports on a pocketless table</span><span class="gloss-quot">)</span> .... 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Note that the <i>or</i> format can easily imply an alternative term instead of a gloss, and is frequently confused for this reason: <span class="example deprecated-content example-deprecated" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: var(--color-subtle, #696969);">cats or felids</span>. The use of double quotation marks can easily be misinterpreted as skepticism or sarcasm, whichever direction they are applied: <span class="example deprecated-content example-deprecated" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: var(--color-subtle, #696969);">cultivar ("cultivated variety")</span> and <span class="example deprecated-content example-deprecated" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: var(--color-subtle, #696969);">cultivated variety ("cultivar")</span>. 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This is another case for use of <code>{{<a class="mw-selflink selflink">gloss</a>|mode=def|...}}</code>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interlinear_glosses">Interlinear glosses</h2></div> <p>Other templates have been provided for <a href="/wiki/Interlinear_gloss" title="Interlinear gloss">interlinear glossing</a>: </p> <ul><li>Use <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Interlinear" title="Template:Interlinear">interlinear</a>}}</code> for glossed text</li> <li>Use <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Gcl" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Gcl">gcl</a>}}</code> for individual glossing abbreviations</li></ul> <p>However, <code>{{<a class="mw-selflink selflink">gloss</a>}}</code> can technically be used (possibly awkwardly) to provide glosses (the bottom line) of an interlinear gloss. </p><p>It is not presently suited for a gloss spread out over several table columns, because it generates 'single quotes' on each use. A parameter could be added to suppress this, but may never be needed since we have <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Interlinear" title="Template:Interlinear">interlinear</a>}}</code>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Don't_over-do_it"><span id="Don.27t_over-do_it"></span>Don't over-do it</h3></div> <p>Regardless what template you use, please note that excessively complex interlinear glosses (such as might be found in a linguistics journal paper) are usually <i>not appropriate</i> in an encyclopedia. As the <i>Leipzig Glossing Rules</i> states: "Depending on the author's purposes and the readers' assumed background knowledge, different degrees of detail will be chosen."<sup id="cite_ref-Leipzig_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leipzig-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Our readers have <em>zero assumed background knowledge</em> other than enough English-language competence to get the gist of articles on the English Wikipedia. Many of our readers are elementary school children, and learners of <a href="/wiki/English_as_a_second_language" class="mw-redirect" title="English as a second language">English as a second language</a> (ESL). Even a native speaker with a masters degree may have no knowledge of linguistics jargon. </p><p>In most contexts, it is thus not necessary, and may be confusing, to provide a great deal of metalanguage <i>morpheme-by-morpheme correspondence</i> information, between the original text and the free English gloss (much less to mix such information into the gloss). </p><p>When such information is provided, e.g. in an article on detailed linguistic matters, link at least the first occurrence of standardized linguistics abbreviations (given in <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">SMALLCAPS</span></span>) to the corresponding article about that feature of language, as in: <span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: var(--color-content-added, #006400);">stay-<a href="/wiki/Future_tense" title="Future tense"><span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">FUT</span></span></a>-<a href="/wiki/Affirmative_and_negative" class="mw-redirect" title="Affirmative and negative"><span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">NEG</span></span></a></span>. 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