Re: CHAT: Essentialist Explanation
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul.bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 21, 2002, 3:43 |
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On 20 Sep 2002 at 19:26, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
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> --- "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
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> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:28:52AM -0700, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
> > > X-SAMPA is essentially a way of writing anything and
> > > making it look like you're swearing.
> > [snip]
> >
> > X-SAMPA is essentially how you make an innocuous language like Ebisedian
> > look hopelessly incomprehensible. :-P
>
> I would go even further:
> X-SAMPA is essentially a tool to make even the simplest thing look
> difficult.
>
What, as opposed to "Chuckles" Kirshenbaum's Wacky World Of Fun-etics? Talk about your
notation system invented on a drunken bet...
X-Sampa is unambiguous, logical and graceful; far from perfect, but better than most.
Ease of reading at it's utmost.
You might as well say Hangul is essentially a tool to make even the act of writing ones
own name look difficult.
I swore I wasn't going to get into any more flame-wars on CONLANG (the hoarier
among us may remember a few
classics), but that's a misstatement up with which I will not put.
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Pb