From a.rosta@pmail.net Sat Feb 19 18:20:20 2000 X-Digest-Num: 369 Message-ID: <44114.369.2043.959273826@eGroups.com> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 02:20:20 -0000 From: "And Rosta" Subject: RE: Dr. James Cooke Brown [I have tried to weed out the To and CC lists so as not to annoy anyone. This is to Rex and Lojban list.] > Just out of curiosity, was any consideration ever > given, in either project, to replacing i and u with > y and w when they are to act as semivowels? > --rx I suppose you mean "consideration given by those with powers to effect changes"? If not, then I have initiated consideration of the matter on this list, but purely as a matter of vacuously entertaining the idea; there was never any question of change resulting. [And probably that answer holds good for most other design issues you could mention!] --And.