From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 09:11:46 CDT
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On
> Behalf Of Michael Everson
> The sounds they represent are idiosyncratic and difficult to
> describe, much less write. Personal? No: he published. Novel? Perhaps
> (in 1925); Doke is likely to have devised them. Private use? Be
> serious, John. That's a pretty ridiculous suggestion.
If no other author uses them, then I think it's not unreasonable to
suggest that they are private-use: Doke puts the terms of the agreement
into his product, his readers enter into that agreement when they decide
to read the book. It is "private-use" as opposed to conventional use if
the readers agree to read his symbols but don't adopt them for their own
use.
Of course, it's an empirical question as to whether anyone else in that
era did, in fact, adopt any of these symbols, or whether authors today
ever use them (e.g. in citing Doke, whose work was of some importance in
Africanist linguistics).
Peter Constable
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