Trailing backslash (was: [T] -> [f] (was: Chinese Dialect Question))
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 7, 2003, 16:14 |
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At 16:07 6.10.2003, Tristan McLeay wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:
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> > (*) I really hate the X-SAMPA trailing-\ diacritic. I always misassociate
> > it, having been trained by 15 years of UNIX experience to associate the
> > backslash with the FOLLOWING letter.
>
>I have to agree with that. It also goes against the arguments I've seen
>for placing the stress marks before the syllable rather than the vowel in
>qn (i.e. you now have to go back and read over it again).
I agree too, although my experience of the preceding
backslash (through perl) is relatively fresh.
Of course we could change that in CXS, if there is
consensus on the matter...
/BP 8^)
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