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

From:Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 6:33
Danny Wier scripsit:

> 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.
Maybe I'm too conservative, but I don't think it's a good idea to make new ASCII-zations. It can bring to further confusion. X-SAMPA (with all its shortcomings) is widely recognized as a kind of standard in the linguistic world. And Latin-1 range is a definite no-no. That's my VHO. Yitzik