Re: OT: Punctuation

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?
In Drasel=E9q Eqalar, I use the following:
- A word separator (=3D our space) that looks like a small backslash "\".
  Sometimes it gets *inside* hollow consonants or words, and in this
  way it can be used like we use a hyphen for loose compounds.

- A vowel linker, which is a descending line ("\" or "/", but not
  so steep), and joins adjacent vowels within a word. You can write
  without it, but since vowels are small (Hebrew-like) and scattered,
  you could confuse readers if you leave it out.

- A full stop, colon or comma, which looks like two word separators
  ("\\"). It's just a pause; you can use more lines to emphasize the
  end of a paragraph or section ("\\\").

- Several kinds of "quotes", mainly like Japanese angular quotes, or
  like square brackets "[ ]" rotated 90 degrees clockwise. These ones
  are sometimes heavily ornamented. They are used to quote sentences
  or words, or to mark names and places (there are uppercase letters),
  like those cartridges within names in hyeroglyphic writing.

- Some non-standard flowery and curly signs to mark questions and
  emphatic answers.


--Pablo Flores
  http://pablodavid.conlang.org/ (any trouble reaching this address?)
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