Re: Phonological equivalent of "The quick brown fox..."

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On a somewhat unrelated note, I find myself wishing there were an IPA
> diacritic for "unaspirated", for cases when I wish to emphasize that
> aspect
> of a phone.  Obviously, the lack of the "aspirated" diacritic should be
> sufficient, in narrow phonetic transcription, to indicate a corresponding
> lack of aspiration, but if the associated sound is usually aspirated it
> would be useful to be able to show that lack explicitly... in general, a
> "negation" operator would seem to be helpful.  But then we're starting to
> veer dangerously in the direction of feature notation...
>
Nothing prevents you from devising an appropriate diacritic _for your own
use/purposes_. In this case, you might use a superscript minus sign, or
perhaps the degree symbol (I don't think those are used otherwise in IPA or
the various SAMPAs, but I could be wrong).  Whether it would pass muster for
professional publication is another matter, but if you made a good enough
case why _lack of aspiration_ was important enough to merit marking, it
might be accepted as an ad-hoc feature.

Boaz and Sapir, in the early 20th C, use a number of ad-hoc
symbols/diacritics in their published Am.Ind. materials (maybe because IPA
norms weren't well established at the time). My favorite has always been the
exclamation point for ejectives--- p!, t!, k! etc.