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on 3/5/02 10:09 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > Right now in the word list there's "Bua" (Buddha) and "bwa" (drink). > One of these would have to be changed if weaks are used for all > diphthongs. Perhaps a weak could be inserted, such as changing "Bua" to > "Buya". > > [ Having a religious figure named "Boo-yah" would just be neat. :) ] > > There are other examples too, such as "dua" (blessing) and "dwa" (must). bua is BOO-ah,or 'boolah' without the 'L', bwa is BWAH, or same as French 'bois' dua, dwa, work the same way. The fact that we have initial stress makes the wa and ua clearly distinct. If we stuck the the old penultimate that I clung to so hard, we'd have a problem. buana wd be boo-AH-nah and bwana wd be 'BWAH-nah', which, when I say them, sound far too much alike. -- >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/