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on 1/20/04 9:32 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@hidden.email wrote: > --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote: >> on 1/20/04 10:00 AM, HandyDad at lsulky@r... wrote: >> >> As we've reserved 'he' for such things, the basic names will be >> >> l - he luy ... >> he muy >> he nuy >> he ruy >> he quy >> he yuy >> he wuy >> >> and the vowels just >> >> he a >> he e >> he i >> he o >> he u >> >> If you agree here, I'll put them on the website. >> > Agreed. They don't roll trippingly off my tongue as yet (particularly > when trying to spell "Larry" out loud) but the point is to have a way > to do it, without using up some of the best and most-used morpheme > shapes. > > Further, it seems likely to me that if the context has already > established that I'm spelling something out (by virtue of presumed > understanding by my listener or by a special marker), I might get > away with omitting the 'he' marker on each vowel and weak. Sure. Probably you'd say something like: Go kyam ti bil, hu be spel he buy, i, luy behe. -- 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