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on 4/19/02 9:45 PM, kevinbsmith at yahoogroups@hidden.email wrote: > --- In txeqli@y..., Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: >> Glottal stops are fine with me. That would give us 8x8 >> or 64 vowel pairs, times six plosives, or 384 cmavo >> from there, plus 36 CV's, or a total of 420 cmavo of the >> shape PV(V). Is this math right? How did I come up with >> so few before? > > I'm not sure it's a good idea to use every possible legal > combination. Having lots of commonly-used words that look > and sound almost identical can make it hard to communicate > in any noisy environment. > > Personally, I love it when only perhaps a quarter of the > available phonemes are used. Fortunately, I suspect you'll > be able to get by with FAR fewer than 420 cmavo, so it > should work itself out. I think you're right on both counts. I'd certainly try to avoid words of the shape CVschwa, lest they are confused with CVa. When you look at a page of Loglan, you see a lot of CVV's. Connectives and the-words and punctuation certainly need to be cmavo, but discursives for the most part do not. -- >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/