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

Raymond Brown wrote:

> >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  ;)
That's a very interesting idea. I may borrow it, since Mungayöd script
has no capitals, and people's names are generally meaningful.

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