Re: Phonetics
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 29, 2007, 20:36 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
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>On 3/29/07, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> > Yes, independant of any particular realization (no specified line width
> > etc.), but are you really claiming that it's independant of ANY
>realization?
>
>The concept originated with a graphical realization, but yes, it
>continues to exist even where there isn't one. I can say that a
>text file on disk contains an a-with-macron, without bothering
>to do anything to render that character as a glyph.
But that is just encoding then, not handwawy "abstract" caracters. :) You
will find you always have to fall back to either data or appearence or both
to decide whether something is an a-with-macron or any other caracter (which
has been my point the whole time here.)
>A Latin textbook in Braille is arguably chock full of a's-with-macrons
>that bear no resemblance to the usual glyph (...)
>Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Um, this sounds like you're falling into the "language as primarily written"
trap. Lots of transcriptions of /a:/ for sure, possibly even with special
Braille diacritics, but absolutely NO macrons unless you mean an actual
embossed macron atop the dots.
John Vertical
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