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Re: USAGE: Shaw alphabet (was Re: USAGE: Con-graphies)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, June 12, 2006, 12:43
On 6/11/06, Joe <joe@...> wrote, echoing many similar replies:
> I suspect 'drømme' is the verb and 'drøm' the noun.
OK, I surrender. I find it odd that the Danish entry in the same dictionary didn't list two forms, then... And as far as the resistance to foreign letters, I could swear I've seen Danish written with å in lieu of aa.. Peter Bleackley:
>Although it should be noted that the usual practice on the list is to use > CXS rather than pure X-SAMPA. The sound denoted /&/ in X-SAMPA is, IIRC, a > rounded sound, while the unrounded sound ("a" as in "cat") is denoted /}/ > or something like that. Consensus on the list was that this was > unsatisfactory, so we reversed it in CXS.
Not quite reversed. In X-SAMPA, |{| represents IPA |æ| and |&| represents IPA |œ|; in CXS, we use |&| for the former and |9| for the latter - by analogy with |2|, which represents the vowel in standard French |deux|, |9| represents the vowel in standard French |neuf|. Neither |{| nor |}| (= IPA |ʉ| = CXS |u\|) is used to represent any phone in CXS, which I assume is to free them up for use as brackets. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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