Re: "Newbie"
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 10, 2004, 8:04 |
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On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> > (My friend, another amateur conlanger, who hasalso joined the list but has
> > not introduced himself yet, thought itwould be too difficult to understand.)
>
> As Nik correctly noted, every conlanger except for Marc Okrand is an amateur,
> even J.R.R. Tolkien.
Funniest spelling of my first name I've seen yet, I think :)
> * This is an approximation; I can't figure out how to properlyrepresent sounds
> in SAMPA, [...]
>
> You will learn that easily, as lost of stuff here are presented in SAMPA (or
> rather in its extended version, X-SAMPA). Before I joined the list, two years
> ago, I hadn't even known about it, but now I have no problem with it at all -
> although I've never particularly liked it.
Actually, hereabouts we tend to use CXS, a slightly modified version of
X-Sampa designed for humans to read (and it's even better for computers
because it's less ambiguous). You [Marty] can find my CXS translation
table at <http://cassowary.free.fr/Linguistics/cxschart.png>.
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Tristan