Re: ASCII convention


Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
>
> [Pointless quoting deleted. Why can't language specialists learn
> to quote properly?]
>
> > I did indicate the *reason* I asked for ASCII.
>
> You didn't. Here's your original question, repeated for your
> convenience. It is very sloppy writing, and confused. At the end,


I admit to sloppiness. the rest is not news. my posts are usually
sloppyly written, with bad typing, lousy spelling and only occasional
capitalization.

> you say that using /.../ is not possible an ASCII post; this
> doesn't make much sense:
>
> 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 thought that graphemes
> > were represented in italics *always*.
>
> I wonder what made you think so - and why you now say you asked for a
> convention in plain ASCII text if you thought that you italics is
> *always* used. Italics can be used for ASCII characters, of course, but
> not in plain text.
>

yes, good point. I should have specified "plain text". but ASCII is
relevant to, for my own use in posts.

.

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