Talk:Conlang XSAMPA
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[edit] Why?
Why do the members of the mailing list use this instead of X-SAMPA? To avoid using some ASCII characters? --Apoc2400 09:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
- My personal impression is that it's mostly about the visual appearence. { } suggest a more "brackety" usage than a "single symbol" usage, so replacements were taken into use - and i\ is, I think, by analogy with u\; while the stress markers, the palatalization sign, and the tie bar are all visually closer to the IPA symbols than in SAMPA. With the latter, consider also a transcription such as /fEt_SIz/: here the underscore visually breiks down, rather than unifies, the symbol for the affricate, while the intention of the diacritic is exactly to emphasize the sound's status as a single phoneme. --Tropylium 10:22, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
