Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 26 August 2012 04:14:50 Michael Everson wrote:
> Regarding "xu?" the typographical stricture is rather odd. In Chinese one
> asks "Ni hao ma?" where there is a redundant question mark by the question
> particle. In Irish one asks "An bhfuil tú ceart go leor?" with the question
> mark ending the sentence -- but the question particle is the first word
> "an". Nevertheless one does not write "An? dtuigeann tú."

The only language I know of in which the question mark goes on the question 
word, not at the end of the sentence or clause, is Armenian, which has its 
own question mark. If I write a question mark in Lojban, I put it at the end 
of the sentence.

Pierre

-- 
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.

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