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Re: [ceqli] diia



On 1/14/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote:
> I'm redoing the dictionary, and I'm still annoyed about diia.
>
> What I want to do is have it possible to have two words,now
> represented by dia (DYAH) and diia (DEE-ah).  That was possible with
> y as the semivowel, but when I dropped that, I had to come up with

IMO this is an excessively fine phonetic distinction
to make in an auxlang.

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Jim Henry
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