Re: Indication of non-syllabicity (WAS: Re: Celtica (WAS: Maggel))

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>:
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>>Mark J. Reed wrote:
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>>>My preference is still for '('.  This is all just my opinion, of
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>>course.
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>>As a person who made certain contibutions to CXS earlier, I would vote
>>for '(' too.
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>I, OT3H, don't like it - you'd have to scan the word to the end to see if there
>where a closing parantesis. Not to mention the possibility of words like
>[ai(ts)na - is that two syllables, with a coda affricate in the second one, or
>three ones, with an optinal [ts] cluster in the middle?
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As the person who made the name CXS up, I agree with Andreas for the
same reasons. Also, I will point out that one reason CXS was invented in
the first place was because of { vs }, which I certainly found hard to
remember. (I'm almost certain arguments about opening brackets came up
before, I'm sure I said something about uses such as [d&:n(t)s].)

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Tristan.