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on 4/22/02 10:16 AM, Rex May - Baloo at rmay@hidden.email wrote: > > Of course, maybe we can dispense with all of these affricates if we adopt > Javierspeak, because we'll have several more VV's to work with. We'll have > Rob's > a e i o u y ai ei oi au (these 4 spelled with j and w) ia ie io iu ua ue ui > uo, (plus jy and wy) > plus > ja, je, jo, ju, wa, we wi wo > > That's 28 of them, times 6 plosives, or 168. > > And if that's not enough, we can prefix j and w to all the Vw's and Vj's, > for 8 more combos time 6 plosives or, 48 of them, plus 168 is 216, just the > right amount. > > And, finally, we will have the exceptional names for letters, many of which > of course have to begin with something other than plosives. Come to think of it, instead of the six plosives, we could use the unvoiced C's for pivor: ptk, scf, h. Gives us more variety, and makes it 7 instead of 6. -- >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/