Hi!
> One question was about the history of punctuation and
> she said it came from musical notation and was first used in
> Greek plays. They had marks to tell the actor when to take a
> deep breath before a long speech (or a medium or small
> breath).
Interesting. I never wondered about punctuation, but when you think
about it it does seem non-obvious, other than the period.
> Also the book is being "adapted" into Swedish, Japanese and
> and other languages. Can't be translated for obvious reasons.
> So, wise lace chatters, please tell me where is the punctuation
> in Japanese? I don't recall seeing any punctuation but maybe
> I've only see the calligraphy and not much..Wait, I just got out
> my Japanese Battenberg lace book and I see commas,
> parantheses and periods (like little "o"s). Once again I
> missed something right in front of my eyes <G>.
As far as I know (currently taking the third term of a Japanese course,
so I may well be missing things), these are the only punctuation marks
in Japanese, and the periods normally look like little o's. Periods
work pretty much like in English and Polish. The commas are a little
vague (either that or I'm just vague on how to use them). Ah, right,
there are quotation marks too sometimes, which look like little corners:
"|_" before and _
" |" after. The most confusing thing about Japanese is
that there generally aren't any spaces, other than in books for little
children. I just recently got to the "no-space" stage...
Weronika
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