Re: [lojban] Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea.

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> 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




	
		
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