Re: CXS changes

Andreas Johansson and others have written:

> 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.
Isn't " ñ"  (ALT 0241) generally viewable by all????
>
> 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.
Agree on both. (I thought "P" _was_ the voiceless bilab. fric...)

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