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Re: New Englishisms

From:Mathew Willoughby <sidonian@...>
Date:Thursday, March 11, 1999, 19:05
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