Majuscules and minuscules

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/18/2009 07:11 PM, Tony Au wrote:

>This doesn't cover all proper nouns, but in Chinese, a centered dot is used
>to distinguish between parts of a foreign transliterated name. For example,
>Barack Obama is 贝拉å
‹Â·å¥¥å·´é©¬ (I hope this shows up right!).

Unfortunately, not for me, with my primitive
Eudora email program.  Can you resend this with
the syllables (or is it Latin letters?) in Latin
script?  I assume the tone numbers could be
omitted, and I *can* see a centered dot properly
-- the 8-bit "Latin 1" code set seems to include it.

Thanks,
Joel


>Tony
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>On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Mark, questions, the first few serious:
> >
> > When you say you "know of one", does that mean you know of no more than
> > one?
> >
> > Does "name" mean place or thing as well as person?
> >
> > How does one know when a multi-word "name" ends, or is each word of
> > it preceded by the centered dot?  (And including words of a name,
> > such as of a book, that would otherwise not be capitalized -- e.g.
> > House of the Seven Gables?)
> >
> > Are book titles, etc. italicized?  What is the equivalent of CMS or
> > MLA for Shavian?
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > At 11/18/2009 03:50 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >
> > >Offhand I know of one, and an artificial one at that. In Shavian, names
> > are
> > >preceded by a centered dot.
> > >
> > >m a m
> > >
> > >On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > In Latin-based scripts and a few others, majuscules are used to
> > > > indicate proper nouns (people, places, organizations, etc.)
> > > >
> > > > Are there any scripts where a different technique is used to
> > > > distinguish proper from common nouns?  A kind of diacritical
> > > > marking?  An additional word or particle?  Etc.
> > > >
> > > > Joel
> > > >
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