Re: Long vs. short vowels in English

From: Des Small (des.small_at_bristol.ac.uk)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:12:47 GMT

Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> writes:

> Torsten Poulin writes:
>
> > No it's not. It's a one-to-one correspondence between IPA symbols
> > and ASCII strings. As the man said.
>
> No, the man said "characters." And ASCII is a character-encoding
> protocol, not a string-encoding protocol.

I said, as you have of course snipped, "The one-to-one mapping in
question is, of course, between IPA and strings of one or more ASCII
characters."

Peter Daniels said, "ASCII IPA stands in one-to-one correspondence
with the characters of IPA and conversion between them is purely
mechanical."

You're a bare-faced liar.

Des
disapproves of that 

-- 
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International Congresses of the twenties and early thirties [...] had
close and effective connections with phenomenology in its Husserlian
and Hegelian versions." -- Roman Jakobson

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