From xod@sixgirls.org Tue Feb 06 11:35:14 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@erika.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 6 Feb 2001 19:35:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 74684 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2001 19:35:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Feb 2001 19:35:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org.) (209.208.150.50) by mta2 with SMTP; 6 Feb 2001 19:35:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org. (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f16JZ8l12302 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:35:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:35:07 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Punctuation In-Reply-To: <006201c09070$ba8b4480$4f5681ce@wlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself Getting jbofi'e to recognize weirder punctuation is trivial, simply run the text through the most simple of search/replace functions. Which would you like, though? If we use "" for lu/li'u, what about lo'u/lu'e and la'o gy.? In my text I use () for to/toi, and I've seen [] proposed for ke/ke'e, but it seems there are a lot of other such cmavo too...continuing with ?=xu, !=ba'e, ;=zo'u etc, we could make Lojban use every available symbol on the keyboard, pounds yen and pipes, and get the perl-like line-noise language we all secretly desire. ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!