Re: Germanic 'bear'

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 68806
Date: 2012-03-06

W dniu 2012-03-06 22:40, Tavi pisze:

> Alhtough I won't reconstruct them for PIE, I think IE-ists should at
> least use IPA standard symbols (a superscript [h\]).

To make them look more "scientific"? There's nothing to be gained from
this kind notational pedantry. Any unambiguous convention will do,
especially for a language whose phonetics is much harder to reconstruct
than its phoneme inventory. There's nothing misleading about *dH etc.
with a superscript [h]. It isn't intended as a narrow phonetic
transcription in the first place.

Piotr