[sw-l] Underlining Proper Name-Signs

[Ingvild Roald]

Ingvild




>From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
>>Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 07:28:15 -0700
>
>SignWriting List
>June 4, 2005
>

>
>Hello Ingvild and Everyone!
>Thank you for this message. Yes, it has been agreed, after a great  many
>messages, that having a way to capitalize signs is an important
>punctuation feature that should be available to all who want to use
>it...and underlining in horizontal writing is the standard way to
>capitalize a sign...so go right ahead and use it, Ingvild, and I want  to
>thank everyone once again for this input.

Yes, I think this is an important feature
>
>A side note, related to capitalization in spoken languages that use  the
>Roman Alphabet -
>
>Back when I was 19 years old, I moved to Denmark, and there I learned  to
>speak some Danish. When it came time for me to write Danish in  email
>messages, years later, I found out that I put too many capital  letters in
>my written Danish...those Danes (or is it danes?) who were  writing to me,
>used fewer capital letters than I did...For example,  they did not
>capitalize the name of the language danish...so I  realized that i did not
>know the capitalization rules in Danish.
>
>What are they in Norwegian, Ingvild? Do you use capital letters like  we do
>in English?...I assume you do not...but I do not know the rules  myself....
>

In Norwegian, we do not capitalize nearly as much as you do in English. We
capitaalize the proper names only, not their derivatives. Thus, we
capitalise Norge (Norway) but not norsk (Norwegian).

Ingvild