Re: Upper & lower case (was: Speedwords hare etc

As I explained in my mail "I'm here again", I got unwillingly unsubscribed
to Conlang last Wednesday and have only now got re-connected to the list.
So this reply is a bit late, but.....

At 6:11 pm -0400 29/5/01, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
>> surely, the reform is long overdue - and not only in international
>>languages.
>
>I'm rather fond of the usage of capitals to mark names, and, inspired by
>that, I have created punctuation marks to mark names in UatakassÌ.
Yes, I found that so in ancient Greek which, conventionally, is printed
entirely in lower case except for proper nouns (at least here it is).

But to retain capitals just to mark proper nouns is not IMO sufficient
reason; one could easily devise some simple symbol to show that e.g. `ray
or *ray is a name and not a common noun denoting a stream of photons or a
flat-bodied elasmobranch fish  ;)

`ray

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