Re: Idea for a new ASCII-IPA scheme

FFlores wrote:
> The main point here is, I think, something which has been
> discussed a few days ago -- storage vs. computation. My
> brain has no trouble remembering /O/ and associating it
> with the sound and the IPA character. But /;c/ requires
> that I parse it into an rotation operator <;> and then
> apply it to the visual image of <c> and then find the
> image of a rotated <c> and couple it to the IPA symbol.
INITIALLY!  However, once you learn /;c/, then it's STORED as that, and
your brain automatically simply has to retrieve that from its memory
bank.  It's especially true of less commonly used symbols.  Say I need
to describe a closed central unrounded vowel.  I don't know the SAMPA
for that, but I do know the IPA.  I'd have to open up the website that
has ASCII IPA and look it up (which turns out to be /1/).  On the other
hand, with CB system, I'd just think of the IPA symbol (barred i), and
write /-i/.  Also, if I don't want people to have to look it up, I'd
have to specify that /1/ was (barred-i).

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