Re: New Englishisms

Brian Betty wrote:

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>
> By the way, I'll try to avoid using this system I've evolved for
> representing English phonemes - I've accidentally been using longmarks to
> note the vowel quality differences in ENglish vowels, a very bad habit. I
> don't know how to show American short /a/, like "uh" or "suds" in
> cyberspace - you know, it looks like a capital A missing the crossbar, only
> it's small. In the meantime I'll continue to use a: for non-A letter a,
> since this vowel is longer in duration anyway.
There are a few different ipa to ascii systems. Here is a link to the ones
that are detailed at the Conlang FAQ:

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/ascii-ipa.html

The one that I think is the most
commonly used on this list (and the one that I personally prefer)
is that developed by Evan Kirschenbaum:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/faq.html