I really don't like notating upsteps at all. I don't think they actually exist. This is why I dislike the LH notation.

I always just copy it from Wikipedia, so I guess I'll continue to use U+A71C :P

Even with the newfangled //// and [[]]?

Oh, thank you!

Oh sure, I was just probing to see if you already had evidence to the contrary (i.e., the "apparently" was referring to someone saying they couldn't see it when you had used the IPA fontset).

Man, sometimes I see people with the worst English giving corrections on lang-8...

Really makes me wonder about the quality of Japanese corrections.

@snailboat thanks, that makes sense

@DariusJahandarie yeah, I've seen English learners offering wrong corrections on other English learners' stuff

I think that question explains the phrase well enough that, even if we aren't familiar with the English idiom, the gist of what (s)he's trying to translate can still be understood

I think the question is comprehensible ... but ...

Sometimes I learn the proper pronunciation of names indirectly via Japanese

Seeing エルドアン made me go and look up the proper pronunciation of Erdogan

Furthermore, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed

This is awesome: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/19662/…

All of IUnknown's questions are frustratingly low-quality, and I don't know what to do about it.

imo gentle encouragement and advice on how to make better questions is all that's necessary

@snailboat U+A71C was added to Unicode 5.1.0 in March 2008, so I think the font support for it isn't going to be 100% complete for it

if you look at fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2193/fontsupport.htm vs fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/a71c/fontsupport.htm Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode (which are fonts commonly used for IPA) don't seem to have U+A71C but do have U+2193

recent versions of Windows should come with fonts for U+A71C like Segoe UI, but I doubt earlier versions would have it

about the only real solution to this would be to use web fonts

and while I'm on the IPA subject, I think there should be another syntax like [//] or something which displays in an IPA font but doesn't display text in // or []

maybe I should start making changes like this on github for now, and submit them when they accumulate so I don't annoy the Stack Exchange people too much, I dunno

hmm actually Gentium for example seems to have a "Gentium Basic" for use as a web font but is missing many IPA glyphs to keep the size down, to get full IPA in a reasonable size it might be necessary to split it into multiple fonts, I don't know if doing that would have IPA rendering issues or not

It seems like it according to search results, but I've never heard it. Maybe it's from a dialect?

Okay, I don't know if (1) this is some crazy coincidence, (2) we're watching the same thing, or (3) it's really common and I just never noticed it, but I just heard もういっちょ.

(I just heard it in an episode of Sword Art Online.)

@snailboat Wouldn't なんてこっちゃ be the more relevant contraction?

althack.org/denai-analysis.html -- I should really get whatever access that broccoli forest has, it is so nice having easy-to-parse results.

(And more importantly, I guess, full results.)

interesting - I've been wondering where the コッタイ in ナンテコッタイ comes from, I wonder if the ~イ is some kind of accent or something