Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Large language structures

From:Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Monday, December 30, 2002, 9:36
Jake X wrote:

<<<What about places that use an em dash (en dash?) to mark the beginning of
a
spoken quotation, in a story, etc.  I've seen this only ever used in some
(older) books from England, and once or twice in Esperanto.>>>

Em dashes are widely used in Russian and Ukrainian to represent dialogues.

Yitzik
~~~~~~~~~~~~~