From LOJBAN%CUVMB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:44:34 2010 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 22 Feb 1993 22:58:23 -0500 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6233; Mon, 22 Feb 93 22:57:59 EST Received: from CUVMB.BITNET by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 9125; Mon, 22 Feb 93 23:00:39 EST Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 23:00:36 -0500 Reply-To: Chris Handley Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Handley Subject: RE: Punctuation proposals X-To: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Mon Feb 22 18:00:36 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Message-ID: Nick proposes: >> "{","}","[","]" to highlight structure of tanru and of various grammar >> constructs like POI-clauses. "le cmima {bele [{vofli bo minji} jeva'i >> vinji] jenma be'o} {poi vitke loi xendo} cu bebna John comments: >These are OK, but anyone using them must be warned that they never affect >the official interpretations. I tend to agree with John, but more strongly. In any situation where there are two ways of specifying something (structure, relationships, dates, whatever) one of them will be wrong sometime. How many times have you seen a notice of a meeting that said something like "Tuesday, 1 March 1993" and then missed the meeting because it was on the Monday? ====================================================================== Chris Handley chandley@otago.ac.nz Dept of Computer Science Ph (+64) 3-479-8499 University of Otago Fax (+64) 3-479-8577 Dunedin, NZ ______________________________________________________________________ The light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off to conserve power.