Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id CAA09827 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 02:30:33 +0200 Message-Id: <199602130030.CAA09827@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 54704782 ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 1:30:32 +0100 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 18:22:32 +0000 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: *old response on y and apostrophe To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Content-Length: 518 Lines: 12 LOjbab: > I have yet to hear an argument against apostrophe that doesn't reduce > to (predominantly malglico or malropno) aesthetics, or the incompatibility > of some software with using "punctuation marks" as letters of the > alphabet - these software products apparently cannot handle standard > English contractions as well, I presume. A further argument is redundancy; the <'> is usually nondistinctive and can be omitted without confusion. Same for glottal stops, if spaces are left between words. coo, mie and