Re: Germanic 'bear'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Then would you tell me why for was the IPA invented?