X-Digest-Num: 292 Message-ID: <44114.292.1589.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:02:05 -0500 From: "la kinin" Subject: Punctuation X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1589 Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 28 Three questions: Does the placement or repetition of a denpa bu between words affect their meaning or grammaticality? (Is "lojban. .e" identical to "lojban. e" and "lojban... .. .. e"?) Could stress be optionally marked by accents "á", "é", "í", "ó", "ú" (which are wholeheartedly ASCII and are supported in plain text) instead of capitalization? This would make things look a lot prettier (perís vs peRIS, elízabet vs eLIzabet), and would remove the extra burdon of learning the capitol letters for a speaker of a language that did not use the Roman alphabet (and the confusion of lowercase l with capitol I). Could certain symbols "stand for" (and be grammatically equivalent to) commonly used cmavo ("!" for ".ui", ":-)" for "zo'o", ">:(" for ".oi" and "«", "»" for "lu", "li'u" (I believe I've seen this one already used.))? They would be read the same way and would be only to simplify (and colorize) writing. If any of these have already been discussed, send them to me at mtpepper@prodigy.net and don't bore the jboste with them. mi denpa lenu do spuda .i co'o teka'a la taly'asis. flóridas.