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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
Before you go further... your message gives the impression that it's common to see those things when it really is not at all.  I don't think I've ever seen these non-standard forms, but again, I'm still fairly new.
 
Except in examples, as in "It is permissable to place a "?" after the question word as in {xu? do jimpe mi}, I've not once seen any character other than the 26 letterals and 10 numerals used in written Lojban, i.e.: abcdefgijklmnoprstuvxyz'.,1234567890
 

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 Mar 2010, at 18:06, Jonathan Jones wrote:

> The thing is, typography and orthopgraphy are not the same thing.

Ah, I was behind in my reading. Thank you for

> Lojban uses the Latin orthography, but it does not use the Latin typography.

Well. What you mean is that writers who write Lojban use Latin, or Tengwar, or Cyrillic orthography. (Lojban itself is a language, and languages don't use anything.)

As for your second point, I think that what you mean is that the standard Lojban orthography tends to make use of the capitalization and punctuation common in Latin typography in a different way than other languages do.

Except of course that some people use acute vowels instead of capital vowels for anomalous stress, and some people use guillemets, and some people use question marks and exclamation marks. At least that's what people are saying. But those are variations of Latin typographic conventions used to write the language.

Michael.

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