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Re: Questions about and suggestions for (C)XS

From:Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>
Date:Saturday, August 7, 2004, 11:33
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 21:06, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 11:55:31 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote: > > Also many people object to using punctuation > > and delimiter characters as letters. I happen to belong to all > > three groups à la fois.
_à la fois_? That's one french phrase not often used in English.
> *gets rid of shwa, ash, and glottal stop - i.e. [@ & ?]* > > Or what is your definition of "punctuation" ? :)
Well, mine excludes @ and & ... In fact, & was once considered the last letter of the alphabet. (I would also be inclined to consider the dot in email address as not punctuation, but the dot as a decimal point is...) Wikipedia's definition is close to mine: Punctuation marks are written symbols that do not correspond to either phonemes (sounds) of a spoken language nor to lexemes (words and phrases) of a written language, but which serve to organize or clarify written language. That simply leaves ?, which actually looks close enough to the IPA glyph that before complaints about it (i.e., <?>) can be entered, I think we have to deal with the IPA symbol too... But I'm more concerned with grouping punctuation (i.e. brackets of all shapes and families) so maybe I shouldn't be talking here :) -- Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>