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--- In txeqli@y..., Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: > on 3/3/02 8:45 PM, Rob Speer at rob@t... wrote: --snip-- > This is a good point in time to get everybody's opinion. Shall we use weaks > to make the diphthongs, or let i and u do it? In short, choose between > > ay ai > ey ei > oy oi > aw au > ew eu > If that lets 'ai' be pronounced definitively as "a-i" and not as a dipthong, then I'm all for it. But if "ai" simply becomes impermissible, then I see less advantage. Regarding "eu" -- someone said it was hard to pronounce, and I've seen quite a lot of consideration given to how easy various consonant clusters are to pronounce...for English speakers. But Portuguese speakers find "eu" to be perfectly easy...and there must be about 150 million of them.