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Re: [txeqli] Re: Eek no.- Baseline?



on 4/22/02 3:26 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote:

> 
> If vowels are separated by a glottal stop, it will prevent using a
> glottal stop at the beginning of words that begin with a vowel or weak
> (such as names and possibly other words). Plus all those glottal stops
> would get very tiring. Do you honestly think that would be better than
> Lojban's h sound to separate vowels (which I also think should not be
> necessary)?

Not necessarily.  A glottal stop between vowels would, in the first place,
but optional.  To be used when needed.  I don't seem to need one for most of
these combinations, tho I seem to need one for ou.   Anyhow, in a V?V, the
second V is unstressed, and the beginning of a name would almost always be
stressed.  I don't think that wd ever be a problem.

If the denseness of the Pivor is really that big a potential problem, I
suppose we could just make it CV(V), and give up having CV(V) predicates.
I believe you're right that it makes minimal difference that pi become pin,
etc.   If we do that, the available CV(V)'s are

13 C x 6 V = 78 CV's

And the available VV's would be a maximum of 6x6, or 36, times 13 C's, or
468 CVV's.

78 CV's plus 468 CVV's =   546 CV(V)'s

Add to that 6 jV's and 6 wV's, or twelve times 13 consonants, we'll have 156
more, to a total of 600 even.

And when we go thru the VV's and eliminate some for whatever reason, we'll
still have plenty, and can have a much more loose-packed set.

Shall we baseline it?
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