From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 22:21:40 CDT
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
> OTOH, it could be said that, following _ad absurdum_ John's argument about
> "grammaticality", all punctuation is "expressive typography" -- as well as
> case-titling, hyphenation and all things noy conveyed in spoken language.
I disagree. The comma, for instance, is not 'expressive typography': it separates clauses
and so relates directly to the nuts and bolts of a basic linguistic activity, sentence
construction. This is my basic criterion for determining whether a sign is a punctuation
mark or something else. Other typographical conventions may be navigational, articulatory
or expressive, all of which are good and important purposes. But I don't consider them all
punctuation marks.
John Hudson
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