Re: OT: Punctuation

guga@guganet.8m.com writes:
>  So, how do you express the same things with word?
Both cultures have no need to try to make their sentences correlate to how
we think (with exclamation, pauses in thought etc). The full stop was
necessary of course to separate sentences, but that's all both cultures
felt was necessary.



>E.g., how
>would you say "You, Barry, seat here, I have something for you.", or
>"Have you, being a teacher, ever read Shakespear?", etc.
Well, you can't really do that in either script, unless you use the
punctuation we do in the Latin script. However, both cultures would frown
on that (Saalangal especially :))

>You use words
>or some order gramatical structure to do it, don't you?

Both the Saalangal and Daga Bundogs have question particles that can be
used to mark questions, but, nothing for exclamation. Context would show
commands, and excitement, but it's not shown through punctuation.