Re: CHAT: XS vs. Kirshenbaum vs. Who-knows-what

Trebor Jung wrote:

> Merhaba!
>
> I read a little while ago (someone's post) that Kirshenbaum IPA
> ASCIIification went out of style a while ago on Conlang, but why?
> Pablo Flores and Mark Rosenfelder(?) still use it.
>
> Why is XS better than KB or any other system - why was it chosen?
> (Maybe because XS was designed by linguists? ... But that's not so
> fair, 'cause XS is ugly - numbers, punctuation... Well, KB etc. use
> those too I'm sure.)
>

It's not, really, it's just the fashion.  People use X-SAMPA/CXS because
everyone else does.  It's a bad idea to use other ones, because then
people get confused.

> --Trebor

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