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From: alderson@netcom16.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Slashes and square brackets [was: Re: problems with pronunciation]
In-Reply-To: Ross Smith's message of Tue, 5 Aug 1997 21:33:24 GMT
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In article <33E79C24.F68D74C2@nz.eds.com> Ross Smith <ross.smith@nz.eds.com>
writes:

>Giving up on the technical theory and descending to practical matters:
>Which one should be used when describing pronunciation?

Square brackets, and *only* square brackets.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
