From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Apr 30 16:51:47 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.31) id 1BJhnA-0006rK-Sh for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:51:41 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:51:40 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea. Message-ID: <20040430235140.GG14939@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040430224308.GD14939@digitalkingdom.org> <20040430234418.78701.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> <20040430234940.GF14939@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040430234940.GF14939@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7606 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:49:40PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:44:18PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:40:01PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > > > > > > Capitalizing the whole syllable doesn't look very nice anyway, > > > > > > In your opinion. > > > > In my opinion it looks horrible. I wonder if anyone really thinks it > > looks very nice. > > I strongly prefer it over capitalizing only the vowel, as I've stated > in the past. As a general comment, in matters of preference if person A prefers option X, it is an absolute certainty in my experience that there exists a person B that prefers the exact opposite of X and finds X abhorrent, so I find your question very strange prima facia. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi