[lojban-beginners] Re: learning lojban

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 22:01, Carl Lumma wrote:
> I'm also a bit put out at the use of traditional punctuation marks
> for something else.  I'm about to try and read about what that
> something else is.

Lojban isn't the only language that uses punctuation marks differently than 
English. Greek uses ";" as a question mark, and both Armenian and older 
conventions of Hebrew use ":" and "." as each other. But those are still 
punctuation.

Some people use question marks in Lojban, either next to the question word or 
at the end of the clause. I put them at the end of the clause.

If I use an abbreviation or symbol in a sentence, I punctuate it with a 
hyphen: {mi m- 1.51 gi'e kg- 64}. To break a word at the end of a line, I use 
a comma, since it indicates the absence of a pause.

phma