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on 4/22/02 9:10 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > Well, I'm still rather opposed to allowing vowel combinations like "ay" > (y = schwa), "ee", "ao", "ea" (this one would tend to be pronounced as > "eja"), "ou", etc. I'll concede iV and uV, since the accent would go on > the i or the u and thus it would be rather distinct from jV and wV. I'm probably comfortable with eo because of being immersed in Esperanto for so long. Clear distinction there between eo and ejo. To me the difference between Beowulf and payola. And I don't think I want any Vy vowel-schwa combos either, really. Soon I'll make a list of what VV's I can stand and we can pick at it. We're sure to have enough no matter how picky we are. BTW, I'd like to make a rule that no more than 2 vowels can juxtapose. Any more than that and one of them has to be a semivowel. > > So: 13 C x (a e i o u y ai ei oi au ia ie io iu iy ja je jo ju jy ua ue > ui uo uy wa we wi wo wy) = 390, which should be enough. > (I think the 210 might even be reduced further, as cmavo that refer to > the 4th and 5th places of a predicate can be dropped.) > > I've even been convinced that j and w as semivowels are a better > orthography than using i and u, so go ahead and use the "Javier system". -- >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/