Re: USAGE: What to do about punctuation?

ecreus il "Mark J. Reed":

> Those of you who have created your own
> scripts, what have you done punctuationwise?
Talarian is the only Conlang I have done that has
gotten punctuatory attention. It's punctuation is
very simple: there is a mark for pauses, a mark
for full stops, a mark for speech and a mark for
personal names. Questions and exclamations are
marked gramatically. For that matter, phrases are
generally set off by gramatical markers, so pause
marks are not really necessary. Sections of text
(paragraphs, poetic lines or whathaveyou) are
generally physically set apart, so no special
punctuation is needed.

Kerno punctuation is fairly conventional. The dot
is sometimes used to separate verbs from suffixed
pronouns (a dash is more common); and is also
used to separate thousands in numbers. I'm toying
with using the long dash for quoted matter. There
are no official style sheets in use - each
university, newspaper, publishing house, et r.
has its own. It is common for commas to be
separated by a space before and after, though.

English punctuation (in Ill Bethisad) is about
like standard use *here*. Possessives don't have
appostrophes as a rule, which I think is the
chief difference (the childs cat, for ex). I've
also made limited use of the (slightly) archaic
"his" and "-es" possessives (the child his cat,
or the childes cat).

Padraic.


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