FUNKNET Digest, Vol 99, Issue 3

[Angus Grieve-Smith]

     I just noticed that Bill mentioned the punctuation possibility on 
Thursday.  It wouldn't be any more artificial than "?" or "!" or even 
periods and commas.

On 12/8/2011 2:56 PM, Spruiell, William C wrote:
> This would be highly artificial but... could you simply use an
> *orthographic* marker -- one that isn't intended to stand for a linguistic
> unit at all? That would partially avoid the "pattern-distortion" issue,
> and if it's something uncomplicated, like a<^>, it wouldn't be
> particularly distracting for readers who didn't need it in context.
>

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				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
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