Re: OT: Punctuation

Well, since Di^me'l is a generally spoken language, and not written down
much (yet, that changes after the Rat' no Broz), the punctuation is not
too advanced. It's actually pretty similar to English, except that the
semicolon and colon are different.

Since the original Di^me'l creators attempted some balance, in a way,
every written sentance can be read as a mathematical statement always,
and has a distinct begininning and end. Captiol letters are only used
when starting a sentence, not for proper nouns (there is one exception,
however). Whenever there is a captiol letter, there has to be an end to
the sentence, which is a period. Every other symbol of punctuation is
used as a type of quoting thing. Each is used at specific times,
however, I am unsure of the details, and pokuna di^me'l kind of screwed
up the exactness. But the different quote marks are:

Little half circles (or so) near the top of the letter (basically like
English single quotes)

Parenthesis (looks exactly like in English)

Little half circles (or so) near the bottom of the letter (basically
like English commas)

Curly braces (like in English)

Straight lines up and down (like the absolute-value symbols), but then,
short lines (pointing inward) can be placed at the top & bottom (making
it look like English square brackets), and each one of these, it is a
farther-in system of parenthesis. This is generally used in complex
logical statements, which are generally only written (spoken di^me'l
usually doesn't get that logical)

A horizontal line (like English dash) used to mark a pause in
speech--like the English comma in usage, except it's also like the
English dash. It is used rather often in lieu of a period in
transcriptions, leaving periods for the end of entire statements (since
all transcriptions are written script-style)

That's about all I have so far--however, there is the fact that time
passes, and I'm still trying to determine what part of dimensional
history I'm getting the language from--so these may change :P

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