On 14 Apr 02, at 19:31, And Rosta wrote:
> Philip:
> >
> > Heh. I haven't learned it, either -- my first couple of posts that
> > included phonemic or phonetic transcriptions used ASCII IPA, since
> > that's what I was accustomed to from alt.usage.english and later
> > sci.lang. But now I use X-SAMPA in deference to the custom of the group
> > -- which means that I always have to look up the web page first ;)
>
> It never used to be the custom of the group. It has sort of crept up
> on us as a de facto standard without our consent, in a way reminiscent
> of the Windows OS.
Is that so? Hm. Thanks for the information; I haven't been on the list
for that long. I just got the impression that a fair number of people
used X-SAMPA and that it was the _de facto_ standard.
Was it not always so? What did people use before the invasion of the
Sampists? Or did everyone have their own scheme?
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>