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Date: Mon Oct 28 21:59:59 1991
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From: And Rosta <cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!ucleaar>
Subject:      buffer vowel
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To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>, Ken Taylor <taylor@gca.com>
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Jim Carter wrote to me:
> On buffer phonemes, it was my understanding that schwa (Lojban y) was
> reserved specifically for this purpose.  If Cowan said that any random
> vowel could be the buffer, I missed it; I agree with your position that
> a specific vowel has to be used.

I sort of understood that Loglan uses schwa as buffer vowel & Lojban uses
any that isn't /i e a y o u/. Is Jim correct?

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And