Re: ASCII IPA (Was Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang))

Maybe we can come up with our own ASCII-ization of IPA... call it the
Conlanger's IPA! Though there are already at least five different
systems, including X-SAMPA and Kirshenbaum, and I have my own
Latin-1-based system which I haven't really perfected.

From: "Eamon Graham" <robertg@...>

| Tristan wrote:
|
| > For a while, Christophe (and others?) was working on his own ASCII
IPA
| > because X-SAMPA is unaesthetic and lacks good mnemonics, and other
ASCII
| > IPAs don't represent the entire IPA with simple characters. I don't
know
| > what happened to it in the end; it probably fell onto a backburner
and
| > then dropped behind the oven. Of course, knowing my luck,
Christophe's
| > been working hard at it and is about to start using it tomorrow...
|
| I'd be interested to see something about that, Christophe... I have
| one that I'm alpha testing but it's not for public consumption (like
| my homegrown stenographic system).  I use it for my own notes and
| for now I'm using it as I put together my conlang website, but in
| public I usually use X-SAMPA with the usual Kirshenbaum
| modifcations: & for { mainly.
|
| I've used and seen X-SAMPA, Kirshenbaum and my own so much that I
| can move freely between the three and it doesn't bother me - I'm
| sure most of us can move between X-S and K.  I don't mind which one
| someone uses as long as it's known which system is being used and
| the more esoteric usages are defined at least in context.
|
| Cheers,
| Eamon
|

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