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Re: Uusisuom (phonemic????)

From:jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 4, 2001, 19:00
John Cowan sikayal:

> > Single letters are shown by enclosing them between < > - but as these may > > be misinterpreted if reading mail through a browser, many (including > > myself) prefer to use { }. > > I have never understood what is wrong with quotation marks: the forms "a" > and 'a' far more natural to me than either <a> or {a}.
The marks < a > and {a} aren't meant to be natural. They're the formal symbols that linguists use to indicate orthographies. I generally use quotes when I'm just mentioning a word casually, or to give a gloss. Thus, the Yivríndil word for 'the wolf' is [nI'BEl], spelled {niwel}. Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu "If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time." --G.K. Chesterton