Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

Quoting BP Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> Isnerq Tamasaer (Thomas R. Wier wrote)*:
>
> > > BTW, is there an accepted way of indicating that something's
> > > a morpheme, analoguous to // for phonemes and [] for phones?
> >
> >I know of no common way for doing this.  I use || for morphemes,
> ><> for graphemes, [] for phones, and // for phonemes.  I know that
> >many people (including some on this list) use || for graphemes and
> >I know not what for morphemes.
>
> I've been using || for morphemes and {} for graphemes long before
> the usage of || for graphemes appeared on this list.  Mostly because
> I already used < > for "developed into/out of", and added to the common
> use of > to mark levels of quote in email it was getting confusing.
I can see how speakers of languages other than English would
find this last point important.  Since in English, the use of
"<" and ">" to organize quotes is highly marked if not entirely
absent in most publications, it simply didn't occur to me not
to use them as I have.

> * I find I can't Sohlobify your surname since I don't know
> whether it is /wijr/ or /waj@r/...
Ah:  it's /wIr/. (I hesitate on the phonemic status of the vowel,
since /I/ and /i/ are neutralized to some intermediate value before
/r/ in my dialect.) Thanks for asking :)

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