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on 4/27/02 12:36 PM, Rex May - Baloo at rmay@hidden.email wrote: >> It doesn't use 'h' as a separate letter because >> phoneme /h/ is already represented by letter <'>. Now that I know this, I can say 1. that Lojban made a big mistake there ? it would be much more attractive on a page with h instead of ' here and there. And 2. This leads me to rethink things a bit. If we adopted the Lojban system for pinvor, allowing 'h' to separate V's, that might be more generally acceptable than either allowing or prohibiting certain vowel combinations. We could conceivably set pinvor to have shape CV or CVhV and reserve the C[diphthong]'s for grovor, that is to say, with this system, all VV combinations would be diphthongs, all else would have to be VhV. So, all the CVV's would be available to make high-frequency grovor, and the CV's for high-frequency pinvor. So pinvor would be: CV's 12 C's x 6 V's = 72 CVhV's 12 C's x 7 V's x 7 V's 588 660 pinvor total. More than enough. And for one-syllable grovor we have the VV's aj, ej, oj, aw, plus 6 jV's plus 6 wV's or 14 times 12 C's, or 168. With care, enough for all the high-frequency grovor we need. (of course, we have many more one-syllable grovor also). This is all just a tangent. Anybody see any virtue in it? -- >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/