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Re: [lojban] la .alis.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
>
> I disagree with Jorge's insistence on straight apostrophes instead of curly apostrophes. Straight apostrophes are an artifact of the conflation of apostrophes/foot signs in typewriters, and does not need to used when alternatives are available.
My understanding was that the standard character for representing the
y'y lerfu is the vertical typewriter apostrophe, not the
punctuation/typographc apostrophe also used as right single quotation
mark. It has to be, for the claim that the alphabet is pure ASCII to
be true. And also, it looks better. I don't know whether it is
available in all fonts, but I guess being pure ASCII it should be.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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