Majuscules and minuscules

[Joel S. Berson]

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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