* Peter T. Daniels
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| I totally refuse to participate in the renewal of this fight about
| exhaustively dividing the universe into mutually exclusive labeled
| pigeonholes. They are useful for engineers, not for linguists.
That's up to you, but surely you mean to say that a definition that
says "whose basic characters denote consonants followed by a
particular vowel" fits Pahawh Hmong?
My question (in the previous email) was basically: what do you intend
to do with that? Your final comment
| And thus it's not a "type." It's unique.
seems to indicate that the answer is: "nothing". Which is fair
enough. I'm a little uneasy about that, but as you say I am no
linguist.
This reminds me: are there any plans for a new edition of WWS?
Personally I would love to see one.
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