Re: CXS changes

Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:


> If you don't feel obliged to follow (X-)Sampa, then you could also get rid
> of the strange use of |J| for a nasal sound and use |n\| instead. I believe
> the only reason for that peculiar use of |J| is that by the time it was
> introduced, there wasn't any general modifier sign yet as we now have with
> |\|.
Personally, I think it would be nice to retain a monograph for this fairly
common phone, and that the palatal conotations of |J| makes it fairly fitting.
Obviously, [n\] might be used as an alternative.

> Another instance of such an unintuitive assignment is |H| for a sound
> that isn't related at all to an aspiration.
Since the IPA uses an up-side-down 'h', I don't think that one's too bad.

> I'd also count the numbers as
> samples of extremely unintuitive assignments.
They once were. By now, [2] and [9] are at least as ingrained in my brain as the
proper IPA signs will ever become.


While we're discussing changes, I might mention moving [P] to the bilabial
fricative (currently [p\]); not only would this make for a monograph for
another tolerably common sound which also increases symmetry with [p b B], the
present use of [P] is for a labiodental approximant, which is, at least on this
list, much less commonly mentioned than the bilabial fric, and which already has
an alternative notation - [v\] - in X-SAMPA, which on top of it better suggests
labiodentality.

                                                      Andreas

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