Re: ASCII convention
- From: Christopher Culver <crculver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:45:09 -0400
"Yusuf B Gursey" <ybg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> what is the recommended convention for representing *letters* which may
> not be identical to the phonemes? [ ... ]is for actual speech, / ... /
> is for phonemes, how about the just the leters, asuming an appropriate
> transliteration system? i.e. "in an inscription one finds y - w - s -
> f" (but do this more economically). in article, a well known arabist
> recommends italics, and criticisez an author using /... / (IIRC such a
> crticiism was voiced in an earlier post) which is not possible in an
> ASCII post. so how do it?
I have always understood that graphemes are supposed to be marked up
with angle brackets ("<w> represents a semivowel in English").
Christopher Culver
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