Re: IPA -> Ascii website
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 19, 2001, 2:46 |
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:04:34 +1000, Tristan Alexander McLeay
<zsau@...> wrote:
>Um.. I've seen OE before, but that's obviously not good. If people don't
>mind me making a suggestion:
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>OE Ligature: <&>
>ae Ligature: <&\>
>u-dashed: <1\>
Lately I've been using [æ] for the ae ligature. The central u is another
problem. Anything out of the ordinary like [1\] would need to be explained
every time it's used. On the one hand, it might be confusing to have lots
of minor variations of ASCII-IPA rather than one or two commonly used
standards. But on the other hand, X-SAMPA is clunky enough that it
practically begs for improvements. It's easy to forget that ["] is primary
stress and ['] is another way to write the palatalized diacritic, while [']
would make more sense as primary stress, and I can't see any reason not to
use [,] for secondary stress. These sorts of minor changes pass by almost
unnoticed, becoming almost a standard of their own.
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