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Topics in this digest:
1a. Re: Conlang punctuation.
From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
1b. Re: Conlang punctuation.
From: R A Brown
1c. Re: Conlang punctuation.
From: Ph. D.
1d. Re: Conlang punctuation.
From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
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1a. Re: Conlang punctuation.
Posted by: "Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews" goldyemo...@gmail.com
Date: Mon Jul 1, 2013 9:06 am ((PDT))
Are there rules governing conlang punctuation?
I meant to ask awhile back about this, but kept forgetting.
I think mine uses a period as a coma.
Can I invent my own punctuation?
I wanted to use the thorn letter, but can't copy it, even though Jaws reads it
right. I can't even re-create it, any suggestions?
Mellissa Green
@GreenNovelist
-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:conl...@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf
Of Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets
Sent: Monday, July 1, 2013 11:34 AM
To: conl...@listserv.brown.edu
Subject: Re: Conlang punctuation.
On 8 June 2013 16:23, Leonardo Castro <leolucas1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do your conlangs have any punctuation peculiarities?
>
> For contextualization:
> www.quicksilvertranslate.com/570/some-punctuation-peculiarities
>
>
Nice that it mentioned non-breaking spaces *before* two-part punctuation in
French :) . I've always felt the absence of space in English made signs
like ! and ? too close to the preceding word for comfort. Note however that
in good French typography the size of the space *before* the punctuation is
not the same as the size of the space *after* it. The space after
punctuation is a normal space (similar to the one between words), while the
space before punctuation should be a thin space, about a fifth to a sixth
of an em-width. Unfortunately, web typography usually doesn't allow an easy
way to type in non-breaking thin spaces...
Another peculiar punctuation is that of Modern Greek, which uses the
semi-colon as a question mark, while the role of the semi-colon is taken
over by the raised dot. In principle, the role of the colon should also be
taken by the raised dot, but in practice most Greek speakers now simply use
the colon.
My own Moten doesn't really have an orthography, just a romanisation, so I
just use the punctuation standard of the language I'm writing in, usually
English. On the other hand I have a language for which I created a peculiar
punctuation on purpose: my Chasmäöcho is written using Latin letters and
existing punctuation, but it uses it all differently, just for the sake of
being different (I was in a bit of a contrary mood at that time :P). The
Listserv archives have quite a lot of material on Chasmäöcho (not all easy
to find), but the relevant post can be found here:
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0006A&L=CONLANG&P=R6166&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches
--
Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets.
http://christophoronomicon.blogspot.com/
http://www.christophoronomicon.nl/
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1b. Re: Conlang punctuation.
Posted by: "R A Brown" r...@carolandray.plus.com
Date: Mon Jul 1, 2013 9:13 am ((PDT))
On 01/07/2013 17:06, Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews wrote:
> Are there rules governing conlang punctuation?
No.
> Can I invent my own punctuation?
Certainly - many conlangers do :)
--
Ray
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http://www.carolandray.plus.com
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"language … began with half-musical unanalysed expressions
for individual beings and events."
[Otto Jespersen, Progress in Language, 1895]
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1c. Re: Conlang punctuation.
Posted by: "Ph. D." p...@phillipdriscoll.com
Date: Mon Jul 1, 2013 9:17 am ((PDT))
On 7/1/2013 11:33 AM, Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets wrote:
> Nice that it mentioned non-breaking spaces *before* two-part punctuation in
> French :) . I've always felt the absence of space in English made signs
> like ! and ? too close to the preceding word for comfort. Note however that
> in good French typography the size of the space *before* the punctuation is
> not the same as the size of the space *after* it. The space after
> punctuation is a normal space (similar to the one between words), while the
> space before punctuation should be a thin space, about a fifth to a sixth
> of an em-width. Unfortunately, web typography usually doesn't allow an easy
> way to type in non-breaking thin spaces...
When I'm doing metal typesetting, I usually put a 1 or 1.5 point space
before ? and !
--Ph. D.
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1d. Re: Conlang punctuation.
Posted by: "Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews" goldyemo...@gmail.com
Date: Mon Jul 1, 2013 9:35 am ((PDT))
Good.
Thanks.
It sounds like I'll be gathering material on punctuation marks.
Mellissa Green
@GreenNovelist
-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:conl...@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf
Of R A Brown
Sent: Monday, July 1, 2013 12:14 PM
To: conl...@listserv.brown.edu
Subject: Re: Conlang punctuation.
On 01/07/2013 17:06, Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews wrote:
> Are there rules governing conlang punctuation?
No.
> Can I invent my own punctuation?
Certainly - many conlangers do :)
--
Ray
==================================
http://www.carolandray.plus.com
==================================
"language … began with half-musical unanalysed expressions
for individual beings and events."
[Otto Jespersen, Progress in Language, 1895]
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