Re: Questions about and suggestions for (C)XS

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 :)

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Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>