From fisseha@cig.mot.com Thu Feb 16 13:08:03 1995 Received: from moose.cs.indiana.edu by whale.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA14820; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:08:02 -0500 Received: from motgate.mot.com by moose.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA29856; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:08:00 -0500 Received: from pobox.mot.com by motgate.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA02985; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:07:58 -0600 Received: from po_box.cig.mot.com by pobox.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA04071; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:07:57 -0600 Received: from gerbil.cig.mot.com (gerbil.cig.mot.com [136.182.7.220]) by po_box.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-RELAY-1.11) with ESMTP id NAA19510 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:09:30 -0500 Received: (fisseha@localhost) by gerbil.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-1.12B) id MAA26162 for dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:07:56 -0600 From: Yonas Fisseha Message-Id: <199502161807.MAA26162@gerbil.cig.mot.com> Subject: Re: Punctuation Picayune To: dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu (Daniel Yaqob) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:07:56 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <199502121952.NAA01260@gerbil.cig.mot.com> from "Daniel Yaqob" at Feb 12, 95 02:52:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1043 Status: R dan> dan> dan> character's, um... `abruptness to sentence flow', as it were. That is dan> a , is less abrupt to flow than ; or : or . or ! etc. dan> dan> This is how I view the order of non-spoken characters as per their role of dan> pause in sentence flow: dan> dan> " " < , < ; < : < . < ? < ! [" " is a SPACE] i think ; and : should be switched around. from webster: semicolon :a punctuation mark ; used chiefly in a coordinating function between major sentence elements (as independent clauses of a compound sentence) colon :a puntuation mark : used chiefly to direct attention to matter (as a list, explanation, or quotation) that follows it just seems colons dont introduce as much "abruptness to sentence flow" as semicolons do. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yonas Fisseha, Software Engineer (708)632-6340 Pager: 0113 Motorola, Wireless System Platforms fisseha@cig.mot.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------