Re: Two questions about the IPA and English.

On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:59, julien eychenne wrote:
> le mer 10-07-2002 à 11:14, Tristan McLeay a écrit :
>
> > Why is it that in some things/people proclaiming to use the IPA,
> > primarily American things/people, <y> is used for /j/ and <s, z, c,
> > j>-with haczek are used for /S, Z, tS, dZ/, respectively?
> >
> Hello,
> I gess a lot people use it for convenience. It is often easier to write
> (or enven to read), and quite everyone knows which phonemes those
> characters refer to. It often allows not to use an IPA font and those
> characters are ready-to-use within several platforms. For instance, on
> linux, I can get printed thor, eth, haczek s... but never was I able to
> print a schwa (except using LaTeX with the package TIPA ;)).
Why would you want to print anything you hadn't done with LaTeX? :)

More seriously, though, I imagine you'd have about the same level of
difficulty finding a j-haczek as an ezh, probably more given the amounts
of IPA fonts there are.

Tristan.

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