Philip:
> > Oh, I see. I have resolutely refused to learn (X-)SAMPA and am sorry to
> > see that Dirk is no longer a fellow refusenik.
>
> 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.
--And.