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Re: C-IPA

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, March 2, 2003, 16:59
On Sunday 02 March 2003 3:54 pm, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>: > > One could even argue that you shouldn't be using the exclamation mark as > > a > > diacritic, since it's the IPA sign for a (post-)alveolar click. > > This rule applies only to letter signs, not to non-letter ones. Was I > unclear about that? As I said, my point is not to make something which > *looks* like the IPA. The rule that letters in the IPA that exist in ASCII > are taken as is is just because we need to begin somewhere, and it's easier > to begin with something which is not completely arbitrary. And the fact > that ! is indeed a click mark in the IPA makes the mnemonic easier, which > is why it's chosen as a diacritic for clicks.
So [!] in X-SAMPA is /t!/ in C-IPA?

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>