From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 16:54:10 EST
Peter,
> Jim Allan wrote on 04/02/2003 12:27:07 PM:
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> > This fits a normal convention in American linguistics to use ogonek to
> > signify a nasal.
>
> That isn't the only convention. I am finding several samples of typographic
> retroflex hook being used to indicate nasalisation of vowels.
Jim Allan is right. It is the *ogonek* which is used to signify
the nasalization of vowels. If you have found things that
as "samples of typographic retroflex hook" being used this
way, you just have confused font designers creating bad
glyphs, IMO. Note also that there is a notorious continuum
of used and possible shapes, attached or unattached, for the
various left and right hooks which have been used as
diacritics under Latin letters. Some people who have used
these things don't actually know what an ogonek is supposed
to look like. And some of these usages date back to the
days of 9-pin dot matrix printers, when an o-ogonek, if
you were lucky enough to have one, looked like this:
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--Ken
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