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on 3/3/02 12:57 AM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > Rex May - Baloo wrote: > > [...] >> What does everybody think of first-syllable stress? The >> vast majority of morphs, remember, will be one or two >> syllables. > > Do you mean the first syllable of morphs only? No, morphs and compounds. I've been going thru the vocabulary so far, and I can't find a problem with that rule, whereas penultimate stress does indeed make trouble. > > BTW, I don't quite grasp: > > "eu as in wAYWard (Esperanto 'eu^')" > > Is this /ew/? And it's a diphthong? I don't find any words in the > glossary with this sound. Are there likely to be a large enough number > of highly desirable loans containing this diphthong? No. I'm not committed to this idea, but I wanted the consonant names to have a unique sound, so they can be used as pronouns. It's all at http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/letters.html There may be another, better way to do this, and the biggest flaw with the letter names as they now stand is that they're not redundant enough. An alternate would be to forget the hard-to-pronounce eu and give the consonants easily distinguished names according to some predictable pattern. Bai, Cei, Doi, Fau, or something. I'm reluctant to use up CVV words like that, but I can't see any alternative, if we want the consonants to be able to act as pronouns. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/