Re: X-SAMPA { and }

On Wednesday, November 7, 2001, at 04:38 , Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> X-SAMPA is a standard.
>
> Some people here may not like a few details in it, but if you go
> changing standards just because you think you are clever, you're on
> the slippery slope that leads to MicroSoft(R) TCP/IP(TM) and other
> abominations.
>
<guilty look>  I know I've used Kirshenbaum [i"] instead of SAMPA [1] (one)
  for barred-i--because when I looked it up on the website, it was
absolutely indistinguishable from [l] (the letter ell).  Heck, even in my
mail viewer I usually can't tell the difference and I *like* the font I'm
using.  I do, however, specify the substitution when I use it in phonology,
  mainly because I can't be the *only* one having trouble with ell's and
one's, dammit.

Fortunately, though Kirshenbaum was the first one I learned, I've done
sufficiently uninteresting and non-exotic conlang phonologies that the
representations were almost always the same as *-XAMPA.

Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com

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