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Re: [engelang] Xorban: parentheticals and interjections



On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am pretty sure I and And agree on the phonotactics of <y w>.  If we are
> going to use these for interjections, I don't like *yi or *wu, but those are
> easily replaced with yay and waw.

But all words end in a vowel. I think "yay ya" vs "ya ya" would be
worse than any problem with "yi", and since "i" and "u" are not
possible words, I don't really see a problem with "yi" and "wu".

xrxe