[WikiEN-l] Re: morphophonics for wikipedia

Tue Jul 8 18:07:05 UTC 2003

steve vertigo wrote:

>PS -- its important to note that Sampa was originally
>designed with only Germanic /Latin languages in mind
>to begin with: "Danish, Dutch, English, French,
>German, and Italian (by 1989); later to Norwegian and
>Swedish (by 1992); and subsequently to Greek,
>Portuguese, and Spanish (1993)." 
>
>Plus it just tries to doo too damn much. 
>
My further objection to SAMPA is that many of its representations tend 
to be counterintuitive.  When it uses an upper case letter to indicate 
something other than its minuscule counterpart I get a completely wrong 
impression about how the word in question should be pronounced. 
 Although I tend to mostly favour IPA, the use of capital letters in the 
popular American system to indicate emphasis is very easy to understand 
and follow.

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