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on 1/19/04 2:26 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@hidden.email wrote: > --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> > wrote: >> I've thought about this: >> >> Add three vowels to Ceqli, all expressed by digraphs: >> >> ae - as in English cAt >> oe - as in French bOEUf >> ue - as in German UEber >> > > For representing some of the more common vowel sounds > foreign to Ceqli, okay (like ZH etc. for a common consonant that > is foreign). But not for native Ceqli words. Please? > > 1) 'Bat' and 'bet' sound alike to most non-English speakers. Even > Koreans, whose written language distinguishes these two > sounds, report that they have a hard time telling the difference > (though not so 600 years ago) > > 2) 'oe' would sound like a stressed schwa, but I think we're going > to need to reserve schwa for consonant cluster buffering. (But I > could bend on this one as long as 'oe' is clearly pronounced.) > > 3) 'ue' is a sound that English and Spanish speakers, among > others, have great difficulty with. > > But the concept of permitting digraphs for a foreign sounds is a > fine one, as long as they don't collide with existing morpheme > shapes. > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ceqli/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > ceqli-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > All agreed. -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/book-GesundheitDummy.htm