Re: First post & three questions

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.




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Yours truly,

Cesar Javier Jaime Garcia