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Re: OT: Punctuation

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Monday, December 6, 1999, 1:54
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.