Re: ADMIN: Conlang welcome message

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:54:35AM -0700, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> > X-SAMPA may be the de facto standard, but I
> > don't recall any statement
> > regarding X-SAMPA as the "official
> > transcription system of CONLANG"
> > having been made, so I don't think that adding
> > this to the CONLANG
> > welcome message would be appropriate.
It's not official, but as the de facto standard, it warrants a
mention.  Something like this, maybe?

        If there can be said to be an official conlanger system for
        transcribing speech sounds, it is the same as the standard
        among linguists in general: the International Phonetic Alphabet,
        or IPA.  However, the IPA includes many symbols that are
        not available in many email systems; some of them aren't
        even available in Unicode.  Therefore several all-ASCII
        transcription systems have emerged; see the conlanglinks.tk
        page for links to descriptions of them.

        If a message sent to the list includes phonetic transcription
        and doesn't indicate the system being used, chances are it's
        either X-SAMPA or the "Conlang modified" version thereof
        (labeled CXS on the conlanglinks.tk page).

-Mark

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