Re: X-X-SAMPA (Keeping the Standard)

--- In conlang@y..., Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@D...> wrote:

> Well, according to the PDF file that's also linked from my page, - is
> a separator, and * is a general purpose escape.
>
> There's an example of - used to mark non-affricateness, like /at-sign/
> for @, and I don't think it'll be hard to come up with other examples
> where it's useful in that meaning. So that's a no-go, in my opinion.
Well, /{t.sajn/ would work just as well with a syllable deliminator.  I
don't know about your other examples.


> I think , is held back as general punctuation --- some authors don't
> like to use / / to set off IPA notation, but prefer italics, so plain
> parentheses, comma and period should unambiguously terminate a string
> of X-SAMPA code. But again, if you do use / /, there's no conflict.
Your explanation would make sense if X-SAMPA didn't already use /./,
/:/, /!/, /?/.   =P


> And there's # and $ --- are you sure you don't want to use them too?
Ooh, pretty...  maybe /s# z#/ or /$ $*/ for /K K\/?

As for /1 }/, I just noticed we still have /i* u*/ available.


Any other opinions?


-- Christian Thalmann

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