Re: Uusisuom (phonemic????)

John Cowan:
> Raymond Brown wrote:
>
> > 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}.
Brevity and clarity. "<a>" is shorter than "the letter 'a'" and clearer
than simply "'a'", which could refer to a concept type, concept token,
word type, word token, morpheme, phoneme or phone, and often will not be
sufficiently clarified from context (as I can vouch for from numerous
undergraduate essays).

--And.

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