Re: So let me see if I've got this right..

Mark J. Reed wrote:


> On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 08:40:33PM +0100, And Rosta wrote:
> > Many Lojbanists use {} as an alternative to italicization
> > (which is usually asciified _thus_) -- i.e. for citing
> > word forms.
>
> And many Klingonists use {...} when quoting Klingon text inline,
> since the glottal stop is represented in Klingon transcription
> by the apostrophe, which can disappear when jutted up against
> normal quotation marks.  It also conflicts with the single quotation
> mark used in nested quotations, which is nicely handled by nested
> {...} since it is a pair of distinct symbols instead of a single one
> repeated.
And curly brackets: {...} is the official way to render Tokcir words in the
middle of texts in English or other such language.  Well, Tokcir also has an
orthographic {'} for the glotal stop.

-- Carlos Th