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on 8/13/02 6:44 PM, kevinbsmith at yahoogroups@hidden.email wrote: > --- In txeqli@y..., Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: >> Quick question. How does everybody feel about an >> apostrophe-schwa, which will not be stressed? > > I think it seems workable. Can you write up a sentence or two that > would have a typical mix of schwa's, so we can see how they would look > in "real life"? I think not very many. I see the form C' used for grammar words and things we don't want stressed. Also maybe to place the stress in a better place in loan words. Go dwel h'meristan. I live in America. Pani dan spun. Spun b'dan pani. Go ten t' felin. I have a cat. (replacing "ta" with "t'") T' b'nana pa b'kom t' simi. A banana was eaten by a monkey. -- >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/