Re: Dotless J with stroke.

On 11 Dec 2007, at 22:05, scr=EDobh John Hudson:

> But if you look at the IPA alphabet, as published in the IPA =20
> Handbook, it is pretty clear that there is an expectation -- around =20
> which a lot of other assumptions in both design and naming are made =20
> -- that the j has a descending hook of a kind that corresponds to =20
> *all* the other descending hooks in the alphabet....
>
> My view is that the descending hook is a normative form of the IPA =20
> alphabet, since it is such an important and repeated feature of so =20
> many IPA letters...

As a subscriber member of the International Phonetic Association for =20
many years, I have to agree with the above, which strengthens the =20
reason for registering IPA as the unique script it is.
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