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

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.




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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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