From: Kent Karlsson (kentk@md.chalmers.se)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 16:50:48 EDT
Behalf Of
> jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:32 PM
> To: everson@evertype.com; unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: RE: IPA Null Consonant
>
>
> > Kent, the symbol used in linguistics is not the Danish capital
vowel;
> > it is the empty set symbol.
A rather categorical statement from Michael, with which I happen to
disagree.
(But I will elaborate on that in another message.)
> One more linguistic usage sample (don't have any linguistic
> books at my desk,
> so I'll have to resort to googling)-- the Finnish "consonant
> gradation":
> http://www.uta.fi/~km56049/finnish/diabk.html
>
> And I can assure you that the Finnish consonant gradation does not
change
> 'k' to the Danish vowel :-) It simply means "disappears" (or in
reverse,
> "appears from nothing").
I understand that. That does not in itself at all disqualify the
capital LETTER
o with stroke from being used as a denotation of "empty sound"
ELSEWHERE,
e.g. the in the contexts from which this thread originated.
/kent k
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