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Re: Large language structures

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Saturday, December 28, 2002, 23:40
John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
> > Nokta Kanto scripsit: > > > > Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish: high-9 both opens and > > > closes; guillemets point to the right. > > > > Really? That seems confusing, to mark the start and end the same way. > > Well, the use of paired dashes in English -- and other languages -- > seems to be manageable.
Or even the use of prime and double-primes in ASCII 'like this' and "this". What could make that use of guillemets confusing is there's not symmetry. K. -- Ceci n'est pas une .sig.