Re: C-IPA underlying principles and methods

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> It was not. You just overlooked the word "character". If I had wanted to talk
> about sounds, I would have used the word "sound", or "phone", but not the
> word "character". Pardon me for being precise.
When my former boss was off to Paris to discuss some geek matters with her
French counterpart in Agence-Presse Medicale, our sister company, she
asked me what I could expect from him.

I thought a while, and replied, "Remember that the French are almost as
arrogant as we are."

:-)

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_