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Re: ADMIN: Conlang welcome message

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 17:18
Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>:

> --- Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> 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. > > Agreed; and aren't most messages in a modified > ASCIIfication anyway? I seem to recall that [&] > for ash and [@] for schwa aren't X-SAMPA?
Act'ly, [@] for schwa is orthodox SAMPA and X-SAMPA. In the later, [&] is low front rounded (IPA small caps OE ligature) - IIRC, it's undefined in unextended SAMPA. Andreas