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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: > I'm agreed. Now, I think the best thing is to go with the original (I > think) set of names in Cuy. buy, cuy, duy, etc. For lower-case, or default > pronouns. For upper case, I see no reason not to just call them ga buy, ga > cuy, etc. For pronouns the default will almost always be all that's needed, > and the ga-series will be enough for virtually all instances. Great! The only times it's really important to distinguish uppercase and lowercase is in spelling out names, unusual words, and computer commands (in some systems like UNIX, where it matters). So since most spelling is lowercase, that's the better default. Police officers reading out license plates will know they are uppercase. Or they could, in their own jargon, establish uppercase as the default and use pi- for the little letters. The '-uy' names should work fine. Also, if we agree on the suggested tone profile for multisyllabic words, then 'buwi' (2 syllables) and 'buy' (1 syllable) will be even more distinct. If we ever need more than two anaphora for 'b' things in an utterance then we shouldn't use them at all...who can keep track? How are we fixed for names of vowels and weaks now? ---larry