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on 3/16/03 7:25 PM, Rob Speer at rspeer@hidden.email wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:39:37PM -0700, Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> There will be fourteen such pronouns: >> b c d f g h j k p s t v x z >> The question is, how are these letters pronounced? I'm inclined to think we >> should have maximum redundancy, but be monosyllabic. baw, cay, dey, foy, >> guy, hya, jye , kyo, pyu, swe, twi, vwo, xwu, zyaw. Maybe. >> Or not go for that and simply have. buy, cuy, duy... figuring on the 'uy' >> diphthong having mimimal use elsewhere. > > I'm in support of buy, cuy, duy... as I was before. I like this system, too. My only hesitation is that we would also need a set of highly redundant letter names for purposes of precision communication, as in the Alpha, bravo, etc. military 'phonetic' system. But for true good redundancy we'd need to allow polysyllables. So for me, it's really a choice between buy, etc. and bew, etc. Vote? -- >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/ceqli/