Re: OT: clothing terms (was: Re: OT: CUNY...)

It was fine with me.  I found it refreshing NOT to have to wrack my brain
for those twisted SAMPA or, even worse, for Kirshenbaum symbols.  IPA I
love, but the "web adaptations" leave me cold.

Adam


>From: Jim Hopkins <Espero9@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: clothing terms (was: Re: OT: CUNY...)
>Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 09:26:19 EDT
>
>Adreas wrote re "Anglophone annotation"
>
>It may be my lacking intelligence but "Anglophone annotation" is all I am
>familiar with.  SAMPA I have no knowledge of.  I will check out the
>website.
>
>Granted, English is not be the first language of all list members so some
>may
>find "nothing less helpful" than my  "Anglohone annotation." As the list is
>being conducted in English I included it because I felt it might be helpful
>to some.  In the Druni native Shpilavi script such problems do not arise
>and
>even in the present romanization system written accents are used to
>indicate
>at least stress.
>
>My apologies to all who did not find the "Anglophone annotation" helpful.
>To
>those who benefitted from it, thank you, and perhaps from time to time I
>will
>include more "Anglophone annotation" to illustrate the sounds of Druni.
>
>Greetings
>Jim H
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