Re: ADMIN: Conlang welcome message

At 12:29 PM 9/10/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>I suppose I'm not crazy about the idea because I'm not crazy about
>X-SAMPA to begin with. I use it, but only because it seems to be the
>transcription lingua-franca around here. Trouble is, there aren't any
>real alternatives right now, and I don't have the time or energy to
>make up my own. I was intrigued by Herman Miller's system which was
>introduced earlier in the summer, but I haven't tried to use it, and
>I've been away all summer and was thus unable to be an advocate for it.
Maybe there could be some links to X-SAMPA with a note that it is a common
transcription system used on the list. I think I generally lean in the
Kirshenbaum direction because it was what I first encountered and is pretty
well lodged in my brain.

Why not link to a nice X-SAMPA chart, and then something like
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/ascii-ipa.html

Just my 3-and-a-third cents.
Mia.