119. Punctuation

The same marks of punctuation are used in phonography as in longhand except the period 119 Punctuation 125 , the exclamation mark 119 Punctuation 126 , the dash 119 Punctuation 127 and the hyphen 119 Punctuation 128 . The comma should be written with a carefully-shaded dot 119 Punctuation 129 that it may not be mistaken for the logogram would. The parenthesis should be written either decidedly long - longer than double-length th or s - or with a short cross stroke . 119 Punctuation 130 . A second form of the period 119 Punctuation 131 , of the quotation mark 119 Punctuation 132 and of the interrogation mark 119 Punctuation 133 is sometimes used by reporters. The hyphen is not used in writing compound words in phonography when the outlines of the component words join readily. Thus, words like day-book and air-gun are written with single outlines. In words like chain-gang, cast-off, the hyphen may be used.

120. Capitalization

Properly speaking, there is no such thing as capitalization in phonography, but a proper noun or adjective may be indicated by underscoring it twice ; thus, 120 Capitalization 134

121. Figures

Except the grammalogues one, two, three, six, ten. twelve, figures are best expressed by the Arabic numerals. Ordinals may generally be expressed by Arabic cardinals, except first, second, third, sixth, tenth, twelfth, which should be written phonographically.

Exercise on the Final-hook Logograms.

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