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on 2/15/04 2:21 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@hidden.email wrote: > "se" and "sa" are likely to occur a lot, and in close proximity. > Would it be better if they sounded a little less similar? Different > consonant or different vowel? First, 'sa' would be a direct borrowing from French, which is rather nice. Second, for a while I considered borrowing 'de' out of Mandarin for the 'se' meaning. I decided against it mostly because in Mandarin it's /d@/, not /dE/. But if we do decide to make the words less similar, that's the route I'd take. What do you think? To kom pan se xyen vs. To kom pan de xyen -- 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