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on 4/30/02 12:19 AM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:52:52PM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> Does Lojban use letters as pronouns, as Loglan does? I think we want to in >> Ceqli. What VV should we use for consonants? Perhaps Coj.. boj, coj, doj, >> foj... And what for nonconsonants? Needless to say, they'll begin with >> glottal stops, but then what? .ama .eme .imi .omo .umu .jiji .wawa .moj >> .noj .qoj .roj .loj. Or for variety, should we vary the VV > > Well, I wouldn't be too put out if it ended up with varied vowels, > because it does make sense for distinction - but I generally have no > problem with Lojban's system: consonants get 'y' added (in this way, > acronyms are easy to say); vowels get 'bu' added, which converts an > arbitrary word (in this case, the connectives) to a letter. The word > 'bu' is useful for describing other symbols (like the period, 'denpa bu' > for "pause"). Of course, it would need to be a different word, say 'gu'. I follow. Bet the 'bu' came from 'buchstabieren'. If we can take the sound combination, we could use Mandarin 'dzy' for 'letter' > > And varying the vowels would leave less room for series of related > words. > > The weaks could get 'y' also with no problem. -- >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/