Re: [tied] Texts in PIE

Me:

>I write *g^H as *gH and the so-called non-palatal *gH as a uvular
>*GH.

Pavel:

>I see. But it could be misleading when every author uses different
>orthography.

But they often do anyway. It's up to the reader to inform himself.

>Let us say that the PIE orthography is historic in wide sense:
>it reflects not only the pronunciation in previous stages
>but also the pronunciation in future daughter languages.

Personally, I'd rather write PIE as it is to be reconstructed,
not reflective of later languages. It's less confusing that way
in the long run.


- gLeN


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