Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: First post & three questions

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Friday, January 19, 2001, 23:39
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>2. Does anyone know of any good sources for information about different >punctuation systems? All that I've been able to find so far is some >scattered >information about old English, Latin, and Greek punctuation.
for Japanese, "The World's Writing systems" by Daniels and Bright says: maru - period. Shaped as a small circle ten - comma. Shaped as a pointed dot, angled to the left at 45 degrees (it looks like the brush stroke on the right of the radical for "heart") kagi - quotation mark. Shaped like greek gamma, the closing mark is mirrored, and flipped upside down. futaekagi - double quoatition mark. looks the same as the kagi, but the lines are doubled. This is used for quotation internal quotations, booktitles, etc. nakaten - this is a bold dot. it's used optionally in place of the comma in lists of nouns dasshu - dash, hypen. Naturally, shaped like the hyphen gimonfu - Question mark. Same as in English katanfu - Exclamation mark. Same as in English. ____________________________ Yours truly, Cesar Javier Jaime Garcia