Re: query regarding proposed additions to Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

From: William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 16:12:37 CDT

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    >That does not matter. The point is to identify the letters
    >unambiguously, and these are members of a class of letters which are
    >identified by the string CARRIER in their name. That is, there is a
    >class of CARRIER G-, CARRIER J-, and CARRIER L- letters to which
    >these belong even if not used in the Carrier language.

    Is there a policy to use such names? I was not aware of this idea of
    defining classes using language names unrelated to the use of the
    characters in the names. This has the potential to be quite misleading.

    Bill



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