Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Philippe Caquant <herodote92@Y...> wrote:

> The numerous discussions about the real phonetic
> values of such or such code seem to prove that X-Sampa
> or others are very difficult to master.
There are no discussions about the real phonetic
values of IPA.  X-SAMPA is a straight encoding of
IPA in ASCII characters, so there is no ambiguity
either.  The fact that some people haven't
memorized all the characters yet doesn't say
anything against the validity of the system.



> I'm not against mutual intercomprehension, on
> the contrary, but things have to be simple and
> practical, otherwise I won't join the club.
Those of us who want to be precise about the way
their language sounds, and I'll bet that's a
majority of the conlang community, will continue
to use IPA and phonetic terminology.  You're free
to employ layman's terms for your own purposes,
but if you insist on crying objection every time
we others refer to IPA, you're not going to make
many friends in the process.



-- Christian Thalmann