Re: OT: Punctuation

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 11:35:43 -0200, Gustavo Eulalio <guga@...>
wrote:

>        How do you guys deal with punctuation in your conlangs? How
>do languages that don't have punct. marks express the same thing? How
>could we possibly improve or simplify our punctuation system?
Mizarian languages have two punctuation marks: a dot (centered on the =
line,
like the <=B7> character in the Windows character set) and a horizontal =
line
<->. Cispa uses the dot to begin a statement, and the line to begin a
question. The line may also be used as a hyphen between words, or as a
representation of the glottal stop. Exclamations begin and end with a
double dot. A dot with spaces around it is a comma. Quotations begin with=
 a
dot-line and end with a line-dot. Other Mizarian languages may have
different conventions for the punctuation marks.

Jarrda has three punctuation marks: one marking the end of a sentence
(which looks like / but shorter, the size of a comma, equivalent to the
period in the Latin alphabet), another one, the inversion of the sentence
marker, that marks the end of a phrase within a sentence (looks like \ ,
equivalent to a comma), and a third mark that looks like a squiggle (like
/\/ the size of a tilde, written at the bottom of the line like the other
punctuation marks) which introduces proper names and certain foreign =
words
such as units of currency.
--=20
languages of Kolagia---> =
+---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/languages.html>---
      Thryomanes        /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print =
any
   (Herman Miller)     / thing till they were sure it would offend no =
body,
   moc.oi @ rellimh <-/  there would be very little printed." -Ben =
Franklin