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Do away with y & w? I'm open to it. Let's see what the effects would be. As far as diphthongs are concerned, we'd need rules like: iV and uV always form a diphthong, as do ai, ei, oi, au, eu. Other 2-vowel combinations do not form diphthongs. Three-vowel combinations can be triphthongs, provided the middle element is not i or u. uai - why iau - yow! but aiu - ah-you ewa - eh-wah No longer could we import words like Spanish día, because one thing we're all agreed about is no diacritics, and dia would be pronounced dyah. We'd either have to disallow 'ao' or insist on a glottal stop in the middle, because I, for one, con't seem to distinguish pau from pao. -- >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/