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

staving Tristan:

>IPA [ɶ] = CXS [&\] = X-SAMPA [&] is the rounded form of [a], the open
>front rounded vowel. It is quite rare in the world's languages & in
>conlangs, so some people (like Peter) are content to simply switch &
>and {, but I still think using brackets as letters is obtuse, and so
>when I used the phoneme in Føtisk, I used [&\], which makes good sense
>IMHO (I also dislike being gratuitously incompatible). I've never seen
>this vowel used for a low central rounded vowel; I'd probably expect
>[Q] to be used instead (then, I can't say I've ever looked!). CXS and
>X-SAMPA (obviously) differ here.
Rather than being content to switch, I was simply wrong on this point,
simply because [&\] is a phoneme I haven't made use of in any conlang, so I
didn't have it to mind.

Pete