Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>]

On 26 Aug 2012, at 18:53, And Rosta wrote:

> I'd never heard of Jonathan's supposed rule either. If the guillemets are going to cooccur with lu/li'u, then my taste as to where to put them would be the same as Michael's, for precisely the reason he gives.

Well, that's two of us who share that taste. :-)

> My personal preference, tho, would be not to couple guillemets with lu/li'u but to use one or the other: if guillements are used, then treat them as logographs rather than punctuation. I realize that's contrary to the Western typographical tradition, but it seems more fitting to the spirit of Lojban, which aimed to have speakable punctuation.

No, I wouldn't do that. Chinese has a question particle and also uses the question mark redundantly. "?" is not like "2". "2" is a logograph for "èr" or "two"; they are more or less interchangeable. But I don't believe that "?" is a logograph for "ma" any more than it is a logograph for Esperanto "ĉu". 

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