Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German]

> Date:         Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:26:14 -0400
> From: Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
>
> From: "Lars Henrik Mathiesen" <thorinn@...>
> > Well, the IPA and X-SAMPA symbol for a velar lateral approximant is in
> > fact /L/, so Imperative was right in that.
>
> Actually X-SAMPA /L/ is the palatal lateral.  The velar is /L\/.
/me mutters darkly. Can't even read a table any more.

But the IPA symbol is actually a small-caps L, and this led to me
spotting a principle in X-SAMPA: Where possible, IPA small-caps
symbols are rendered as caps-with-backslash. (But the inverse rule
does not hold).

The exception is the IPA small-caps oe-ligature, which ASCII of course
doesn't have at all. It also happens to be the only relevant vowel
symbol as well, but I don't think that has anything to do with it.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)