Re: Idea for a new ASCII-IPA scheme

John Cowan wrote:
> "&" doesn't seem so arbitrary to me.
Well, certainly no more arbitrary than the IPA's use of ash.  My point
was that the CB system is the best system in existence for going from
IPA to ASCII.  Every other system is effectively a unique system based
loosely on IPA.  Granted, the bottom of & does look a  little like an a,
but you really have to stretch the imagination to see an e or an
epsilon.  And what about the /O/ - that looks nothing like the IPA
symbol, while CB /;c/ means "rotated c", which does bear a very close
resemblance to the open o.

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