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

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:40:01PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- 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, 

One of them isn't a convention, it's part of the language definition.

> but if you use them in names only for the accented vowel then there
> shouldn't be any conflict. 

That's nice.

> Capitalizing the whole syllable doesn't look very nice anyway, 

In your opinion.

> and there are no fixed rules in Lojban for syllable break-up.

There aren't?

-Robin

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