Re: Fwd: Re: (SC2WG2.609) New contribution N2705

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 16:07:23 EST

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    > >I agree. Furthermore, it seems to me that the laryngeal a, e, and o
    > >subscripts are not productive, and that it would be better to encode
    > >something named either LATIN LETTER CAPITAL H WITH SUBSCRIPT A or
    > >(better, IMHO)
    > >LATIN LETTER A-COLORED LARYNGEAL, and the same for the other two.
    >
    > No, the letters are productive in other contexts besides IE
    > laryngeals. In particular at least the Uralicists have recently
    > written to me thanking me for proposing the subscript o because it
    > turns out they need it too.

    And I pointed out that subscript-a is used as a transcription
    for furtive patah in Hebrew. So there are sure to be more
    such instances for a, e, and o, in particular.

    It's the subscript-x and subscript-/ that I am objecting to.

    --Ken



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