[Lexicog] Who Said What?

[Kenneth C. Hill]

This is another good idea. A minor problem with diacritics is where to put
them when they are handled linearly, before or after the character marked?
I remember an enormous misunderstanding several years ago when a linguist
misunderstood some stress marks as marking the following syllable (as in
the IPA) rather than the preceding syllable as was intended in the
original publication. My suggestion is that if anyone wants to use
email-motivated departures from normal graphic representations, one should
simply say so. "In this email I use N to mark the nasalization of the
preceding vowel." "Below, "o (or o", if that's your preference) represents
o with dieresis." No universal solution is being proposed, just the
suggestion that there are simple ways to deal with problems as they may
arise.

--Ken

--- Benjamin J  Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> At least for characters with diacritics, wouldn't it work to simply put
> the diacritic before the letter if there is a concern about
> compatibility?
>
> ~n
> 'e
> `e
>
> etc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damon Allen Davison [mailto:allolex at gmail.com]
>
>
> Graphic representations of "foreign" character sets are problematic
> because there are sundry and conflicting whatever-to-Latin
> transcription systems out there.  One of the problems from a
> computational point of view is that the representation markers for
> many of these systems are ambiguous. ' N ' may very well represent a
> tilde, but ' N ' also needs to be able to represent, well, ' N '. I
> might be able to fish that out using a rule like: "if there is a
> majiscule N in the middle of a word, it means that the previous word
> has a tilde over it". Another problem with using tricks like ' N' is
> that there are words and especially acronyms out there that have
> internal capitalization. This all really does seem a bit excessive
> since everyone should at the very least have ISO-8859-1 support and
> 8859-1 contains almost all Western European letters. ASCII has long
> since been obsolete.
>
>



		
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