From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Fri Apr 30 15:40:39 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41907.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.158]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.31) id 1BJggK-0005Qk-Pj for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:40:32 -0700 Message-ID: <20040430224001.58073.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.69.6.34] by web41907.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:40:01 PDT Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea. To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20040430222316.GC14939@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 7600 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > Some people use capital letters in Lojban to represent letterals, > similar to English acronyms. > > I just realized what the problem is with this: it introduces ambiguity, > because capital letters can be used in names. The two conventions are not compatible, no, but if you use them in names only for the accented vowel then there shouldn't be any conflict. Capitalizing the whole syllable doesn't look very nice anyway, and there are no fixed rules in Lojban for syllable break-up. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover