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on 4/22/02 10:28 PM, Rex May - Baloo at rmay@hidden.email wrote: > 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. To elaborate a little on that, I think part of the problem may be the basic pronunciation of 'e'. As an Anglophone, I contrast e and ej all the time in ben and bane, pen and pain. And the same is done in Russian, and, I think, spanish and japanese. So the best thing, I think, is to think of e as the sound in bet, get, bed - an english/russian 'e'. Then ea, eo, and eu will be EH-ah, EH-oh, Eh-oo, with or without glottal stops, and eya, eyo, and eyu will be EH-yah, EH-yoh, EH-yoo. If we have to choose, tho, I'd rather have ea, eo, eu available for pinvor and prohibit eya, eyo, eyu. -- >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/