From cowan@ccil.org Sun Jul 08 10:16:50 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 8 Jul 2001 17:16:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 66525 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2001 17:16:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 8 Jul 2001 17:16:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 8 Jul 2001 17:16:48 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15JIAu-0007wm-00; Sun, 08 Jul 2001 13:16:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] optional punctuation In-Reply-To: from Michal Wallace at "Jul 8, 2001 12:54:25 pm" To: Michal Wallace Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 13:16:52 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Michal Wallace scripsit: > Scheme A is to let you put as much punctuation as you like in a > sentence just for visual markup, but you still have to have all the > right words. This might also include *bold* or LARGE or _italic_ text > for emphasis.. but then again, you shouldn't need to emphasize one > word over another because what your saying should be clear already. This is indeed the standard use of punctuation proper: you must have all the words. > fred cusku? > > would still NOT be a question... The ? would just be a mistake, > ignored by a parser and not pronounced out loud. Right. That's "la fred. cusku", BTW: an easy mistake to make. > Scheme B is to define symbols for certain selma'o.. For example: This is standard for mathematical cmavo: digits, + - * /, etc. can be used in place of (not supplementing) the corresponding cmavo. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter