Re: Conpunct

At 02:47 PM 12/4/98 -0500, James Campbell wrote:

>I'd be interested to hear of any other
>punctuation marks or conpunct stuff from other script systems.
>
Vogu has only two punctuation marks, a period and comma.  The period
is a straight line, and signals the end of a sentence.  The comma is
like a backwards 'c', and it breaks a complex sentence into phrases.

Besides punctuation, Vogu has a hiatus mark (a small circle) to mark
that something is incomplete, used like a dash with affixes (eg., po-),
and to mark abbreviations and acronyms.  It also has a dash and quote
marks, which are used together to set off quotations.  There is also
a "divider" sign, that looks like an 'S' turned on its side with a circle
in the middle, used to indicate ranges of numbers or letters (and word
roots, in the dictionary), and a single parenthesis sign, which looks
just like an equals sign.

To round out the inventory, there is also a currency sign, sort of like
an 'f' with a backwards 'c' replacing the central line, which is used
to designate the local currency, the /prabst/.

Finally, Vogu doesn't have capital letters, but marks names and titles
by placing a short vertical line over each letter of the word.

-- Terry

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