Correcting emoticons and typing phonetic symbols in Word 2000: another solution (fwd)

[Lynne Murphy]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:10:18 -0700
> From: Keith Johnson <kej at U.Arizona.EDU>
>
>         I know I'm not alone among
> Word users frustrated by "smart" (ha!) tools that assume I want capital
> I's and smiley faces instead of good, noble and true phonetic symbols!
>
> My own strategy for correcting the [i] --> [I] is simply to highlight the
> [I] and type [i].  I don't change the tool completely so that it doesn't
> do it at all just because it's actually useful when writing normal text.

I say we should just give up on i as a phonetic symbol and replace it with
the MS-Word smiley face.  After all, when you want someone to smile, you
make them say the /i/ sound.  ("CHEESE")  It's iconic!

Lynne




M Lynne Murphy
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