Re: sibilants
| From: | David McCann <david@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 18, 2008, 16:10 |
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On Sun, 2008-08-17, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> I hereby propose U+01A3
> LATIN SMALL LETTER OI = LATIN SMALL LETTER GHA
> with CXS [q\] for the voiced uvular approximant.
> I hearby propose [D\] as an abbreviation for [D_-
> _o] in CXS. (Yes, I'm in a symbols-proposing mood
> today! :-)
I don't care about all this #!*$ CXS stuff, as I'm never going to use
it, but hasn't the IPA got too many symbols already? e.g. pairs that are
never contrasted, like ɘ/ə, ɱ/m. Why not just mark the unusual value or
allophone with a diacritic for retracted or advanced and then use the
simplest possible character? i.e. ð̟ for American English, ð for British
English, and ð̠ for Icelandic; just once, and then ð. Actually, I use δ,
but that's a whole new can of worms.
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