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Re: [lojban] la .alis.



Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> I'm flexible about things that are not yet 100% formalized, or that
> are specifically formalized as flexible, or where a good reason by
> my standards exists; "capitalizing the whole syllable looks
> ugly/like shouting" seems valid to me; "capitalize proper names
> because that's how English does it" most *certainly* does not.

Not just English, but essentially *every* language written in Latin,
Greek, or Cyrillic, which amounts to a huge fraction of all the written
languages on the planet.  Also, FWIW, Loglan., which originally used
upper/lower case as Lojban does.

(Using the acute accent to mark stress is already optional-standard.)

-- 
Samuel Johnson on playing the violin:           John Cowan
"Difficult do you call it, Sir?                 cowan@ccil.org
 I wish it were impossible."                    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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