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> > They'll end up being pronounced the same as "-iya", "-iye", "- iyu", > > and "-iyo". > > Exactly. So, I figure, why not prohibit those and go with ia, etc.? > I think that for some speakers, "kya" and "twa", for example, are going to become "kia" and "tua" with stress on the "i" and "w". So we really can't expect these alternatives to remain phonemically distinct. And that means we do away with "y" and "w". Which means: 1) We lose the parallelism with the standard English/ASCII alphabet. 2) We end up with words that look like "piauaui" instead of "pyawawi", which will make some people giggle. ---Krawn