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Re: [romconlang] Orthography Question



Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
>> This should be [&\]...
>
> Except that modifying backslashes **should** go
> **before** the thing they modify...

Why?  Everything in X-Sampa and thus CXS that modifies goes after the
thing it modifies.  Just like the modifiers in Unicode and in IPA
itself.  So if the backslash was before things, it would be
inconsistent.

(And CXS is not a programming language and the \ does not quote
anything...)

**Henrik