phonemic versus broad
Posted by eczh on 16 Mar 2007 in Activity log
We did initially propose to use 'broad', and then we changed that to 'phonemic' when we decided to use phonemic representations in the hyph elements. Neither term is exactly right. However, I think we should decide to go with 'phonemic' because this means that one can characterize the orthography as 'roughly phonemic' and that will be generally understood ('roughly broad phonetic' is a messier designation). So this should be changed in the xml markup documentation.