This SAMPA
looks very ugly to me and I have never learnt it.
I also find many of its usages to be counterintuitive. The advantage of
the "unusual" symbols is that the reader does not have preconceptions
about what they mean.
Ec
That's not true of SAMPA or the IPA. For example they both use j for a y sound
(as in "yes") and y for a oo vowel sound (as in French "tu"). Also,
SAMPA uses
symbols like @{}&123456789 etc, and you can't say you have preconceived ideas
of how to pronounce those. :)
But I feel like we're wandering further and futher off-topic, so I'll stop
there.
By the way, arial unicode ms is on sourceforge, so I finally have a decent font
which can handle the IPA. All my previous comments about SAMPA having maximum
cross-browser compatability still stand though.
Fabi.
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