Re: Another attempt at plain language

Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Fri, 18 September 2015 16:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: Another attempt at plain language
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
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Phonetic notation is a matter of orthography, not of word-choice or discourse style. 

> On 18 Sep 2015, at 00:15, CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> (Note on generic subtags: for FONIPA/FONUPA there are many examples of use, and it is clear that a single script subtag properly identifies all; I am one of those who [is] not sure that such a generic subtag could work for "simple".)

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/