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on 3/3/02 9:23 PM, guildyank at lsulky@hidden.email wrote: > --- 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. Well, the problem there is that a-i would sound an awful lot like ay in speech, at least mine, and with initial stress, it would never be a case of a-i', but always a'-i. My only reason, BTW, for preferring ai, etc, is that it looks better, or seems to, to me. > > 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. > I agree here, and I'd like to permit ew or eu, whichever we agree on. It doesn't really appear in English, but I have no problem with it. Wait, it does appear in English, as in 'be vEWWy quiet, I am hunting wabbits.' -- >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/