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Rex May - Baloo wrote: > > on 3/4/02 10:05 AM, John Schilke at doc@hidden.email wrote: > > >> > >> Ai system. Looks better and more natural. Gau looks nicer than gaw. > > A matter of personal opinion -- I'm neutral on the point. > > > >> And > >> might as well use it because the ay system will really make it necessary > > to > >> prohibit ai, as they'll sound a lot alike. > > Yes. With initial stress, It's going to be very hard to distinguish ai from > ay, ei from ey, etc. So I'm inclined to prohibit them. [...] That seems reasonable, as long as we can import words that have them, and just convert <i> to <y> and <u> to <w>. How about the question of which vowel the weak goes with in cases like <hawa> or <kayu>? My feeling is that they should go with the following vowel (/'ha wa/, /'ka yu/) whenever there is a VWV combo. And, in fact, the same should work for other weaks, so that <bara> is /'ba ra/, not /'bar a/. This seems to be the most common pattern. -- Mike Wright http://www.CoastalFog.net _____________________________________________________ "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." -- Charles de Gaulle