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From: Michael Everson In-Reply-To: <503A6288.20405@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:14:46 +0100 Message-Id: <5C6BAE69-E2F9-4D6A-8CF7-51AA9D266AC4@gmail.com> References: <2320FCB7-86FE-4E30-9F24-DAD6E40024D7@evertype.com> <925d17561003280714y30d5eb1fo19b9f97eb6902eaa@mail.gmail.com> <4BAF7446.6070008@gmail.com> <20100328192909.GG6600@digitalkingdom.org> <925d17561003281729t30ffbfcbge6209c18f8d01d36@mail.gmail.com> <06B70573-D388-4FA0-8F64-9BB9FFAFB2EC@gmail.com> <503A6288.20405@gmail.com> To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Original-Sender: michael.everson@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of michael.everson@gmail.com designates 74.125.82.176 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=michael.everson@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / On 26 Aug 2012, at 18:53, And Rosta wrote: > I'd never heard of Jonathan's supposed rule either. If the guillemets are= going to cooccur with lu/li'u, then my taste as to where to put them would= be the same as Michael's, for precisely the reason he gives. Well, that's two of us who share that taste. :-) > My personal preference, tho, would be not to couple guillemets with lu/li= 'u but to use one or the other: if guillements are used, then treat them as= logographs rather than punctuation. I realize that's contrary to the Weste= rn typographical tradition, but it seems more fitting to the spirit of Lojb= an, which aimed to have speakable punctuation. No, I wouldn't do that. Chinese has a question particle and also uses the q= uestion mark redundantly. "?" is not like "2". "2" is a logograph for "=C3= =A8r" or "two"; they are more or less interchangeable. But I don't believe = that "?" is a logograph for "ma" any more than it is a logograph for Espera= nto "=C4=89u".=20 --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. 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