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On 3/25/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > The discussions going on at the Demos group > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/demos-ial-project/ Looks kind of neat, but I don't have time to get involved in yet another mailing list right now. Maybe after about July. > Return to the Loglan idea of grammatical particles that have a > special shape. This would be CV, and would yield up 65 possible > grammar words. Articles, tense and aspect markers, punctuation, > things like that. So how many current meanings now expressed with CV roots would have to be changed to some other form? > Allow any number of tcwaba at the beginning of a morph, and allow > schwa-buffering to make it pronounceable for just about > everybody. This would enable word borrowing like > ktcpe from ketchup (an extreme example) to be pronounced > kuh-chuh-PEH or kuh-tuh-shuh-PE. I'm not too keen on this, since it requires adding another less common vowel in addition to the near-universal five vowels. Also, the very people who might have most trouble pronouncing such clusters are liable to be some of the same people whose native languages don't have schwa. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm