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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
The only people who know much about it in English speaking countries are book designers, publishers, and hobbyist typographers. They are still called rules, norms, and conventions.
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For western langaues, I also call it rules, norms, or conventions. We have nothing different on this. Why it's rules, norms, or conventions for western languages? Because most peopel using that language accept it. People can learn the rules, norms, conventions in school, from reference books or writing guide, or the associations of publishing. Even a foreigner (for western language) like me know the punctuation rules. I don't know exactly when I perceived it, I just knew it during learning English.
Why I doubt it rules, norms, or conventions for traditional Chinese? Because for traditional Chinese I don't see the same condition as western laguage. Teachers, writing guide for Chinese writing do not consider it rules. If association of publishers for traditional Chinese has such norms, that's nice, but that's not what I know of.
I am not opposed to making it rules, norms, or conventions in the future, but before it's considered rules, norms, or conventions, we must have many people accept it. For the time being, we don't have the qualified conditions. That's why I doubt it rules, norms, or conventions.
You used "resist" to describe me. When you used that word, you revealed that you "insist" on something. In fact, on this issue, there is nothing to insist or resist, because reality is reality, only that reality may differ for time and place.