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on 5/4/02 3:46 AM, uaxuctum at uaxuctum@hidden.email wrote: >> 1. Letter names in Cy > > The main problem I see with this option is that, though > it is very easy to learn and remember, as in Esperanto > it makes letter names easily confusable. Yes. Let's back off and think a minute about what we want letter names for. 1. To spell words 2. To use as pronouns. 3. ? For 1., anything will do. It's going to be rare and any system will work. We'll use 'military' spelling when preciseness is required whatever base system we have. But 2 will be very frequent. We'd want redundancy if we can get it, but not at the expense of difficulty of learning or pronunciation. Loglan seems to get by okay with Caj, and Lojban with Cy. All the other schemes seem to add a lot of memorization without much advantage gained. I'm now edging towards Cuj, because it uses up a set of pivor not likely to be wanted for anything else. Also, 'uj' will be rare elsewhere, so that when 'uj' is heard, it's highly likely that you've got a pronoun. With the 'uj' for all the C's, we can revert to 'zy' for lojban 'bu.' So for the rest of the letters, the names can be .azy .ezy .izy .ozy .uzy for the vowels, .jojzy .wawzy for the semivowels. .amzy, .anzy .arzy .alzy .aqzy for the weaks. For military spelling, the consonants are simple enough. Just a word that begins with C +zy. For nonconsonants, use names the same way. Or use names for everything. Sound ok to everybody? If the Cuj is too unpalatable, we can revert to Coj or even Caj. Comments? >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/