Majuscules and minuscules

[Tony Au]

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 贝拉克·奥巴马 (I hope this shows up right!).

Tony


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:
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> When you say you "know of one", does that mean you know of no more than
> one?
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> Does "name" mean place or thing as well as person?
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> 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?)
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> Are book titles, etc. italicized?  What is the equivalent of CMS or
> MLA for Shavian?
>
> Joel
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> Joel
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> At 11/18/2009 03:50 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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> >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:
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> > > 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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