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Re: [ceqli] diia


On Jan 14, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Jim Henry wrote:


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.
I must not be clear here. It's the same as Esperanto 'dia' and 'dja'. What I'm wanting, really, is to have words like Spanish 'dia' without too complicated a pronunciation and stress system. 

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