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1.1. Re: writing (almost) entirely in lower-case letters
From: BPJ
1.2. Re: writing (almost) entirely in lower-case letters
From: Leonardo Castro
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1.1. Re: writing (almost) entirely in lower-case letters
Posted by: "BPJ" b...@melroch.se
Date: Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:18 am ((PDT))
2013-06-21 17:31, R A Brown skrev:
> On 21/06/2013 15:30, Michael Everson wrote:
>> On 17 Jun 2013, at 01:27, Larry Sulky
>> <larrysu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> All my conlangs -- Konya, Lume, Elomi, and Qakwan, use
>>> capitalisation only on proper names.
>>
>> And why wouldn't you help your readers navigate a
>> paragraph by beginning sentences with capital letters?
>>
>
> When I learnt Classical Greek very many moons ago (How many
> moons in 69 and a bit years?) I discovered this convention.
> I do not ever recall finding the lack of capital latter at
> the beginning of a sentence to be a hindrance in reading.
>
> On the other hand, knowing that if I met a capital I had a
> proper name was a great help - for a start, it saved
> rummaging through the dictionary.
>
> I have read Latin texts printed with the same conventions
> and never found a problem.
>
Indeed. I seldom use capitals when texting and nobody has
complained so far!
The only *slight* inconvenience is that the period is used both
as a sentence separator and as an abbreviation mark, and sentence-
initial capitalization sometimes serves to disambiguate that.
However the *real* problem is our writing system's failure to
develop a dedicated abbreviation sign. I always found the
existence of one in Devanagari very sensible, and have an
equivalent in my conscripts. Unfortunately one can't easily
import the Devanagari abbr° mark into western writing systems, as
it coincides in shape with the degree sign of the western
tradition. Of course it would only take a single mark extra to
mark proper names as such too, rather than having two variants of
each letter of the ¤latin alphabet, but then again most scripts
do fine without any such indication.
/bpj
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1.2. Re: writing (almost) entirely in lower-case letters
Posted by: "Leonardo Castro" leolucas1...@gmail.com
Date: Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:19 am ((PDT))
2013/6/21 Alex Fink <000...@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:15:54 -0300, Leonardo Castro <leolucas1...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I wonder why nobody chooses to write completely in upper-case letters.
>
> Saanich does; in the romanisation they've adopted the lang is called
> SENÄOŦEN. (Well, there's one exception; the 3rd possessive suffix â¹-sâº
> is lowercase.) I have no idea why. And they make considerable use of the
> overlaid-slash diacritic, and comma is a letter. Sets my ears bleeding to
> look at any amount of it.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saanich_language#Writing_system
BTW, I find small caps characters particularly beautiful. It's my
preferred non-cursive characters for writing by pen.
Até mais!
Leonardo
>
> Alex
Até mais!
Leonardo
2013/6/22 Roman Rausch <ara...@mail.ru>:
>>I don't like word-medial capitalisation either, but I have to suffer
>>through it every day in my career: modern-day programming convention is
>>all about being camelCased, which I find veryUglyAndTotallyJarring, and
>>for which I totallyPlace allOfTheBlame on Java. :-P
>
> In my own code, I prefer a differentiated approach where I make noun phrases
> camel-cased, but separate objects of verbs with an underscore, for example
> ArraySorter, but sort_array. I don't know whether this already exists as a
> convention somewhere, but I find this the most readable choice.
I program in Java as well, and I do use the CamelCase conventions. I
find the UpperCamelCase a little less ugly than lowerCamelCase. OTOH,
I simply use hyphens between words to name personal files and folders
that are not part of programming code, usually reserving initial
capital for folders.
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