From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Tue Feb 4 08:40:27 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Tue, 4 Feb 92 08:40 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA23280; Tue, 4 Feb 92 08:16:53 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA26927; Tue, 4 Feb 92 08:15:39 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA13335; Tue, 4 Feb 92 08:14:35 EST Message-Id: <9202041314.AA13335@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 9393; Tue, 04 Feb 92 08:13:13 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 4911; Tue, 04 Feb 92 08:13:01 EST Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1992 12:08:22 GMT Reply-To: CJ FINE Sender: Lojban list From: CJ FINE Subject: Re: Buffer vowel and "y" X-To: gilson X-Cc: Lojban list To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: ; from "61510::GILSON" at Jan 30, 92 3:15 pm Status: RO > > If it were _my_ language, I'd accept Mark's suggestion. In fact, u-umlaut > is the sound of y in Latin, Finnish, Swedish, and probably other languages > as well, so it isn't even a strange use of the letter; it's the sound that > the letter originally stood for in the Latin alphabet. But it isn't my decision > to make, and I'll bet Lojbab won't take it. > I'm inclined to agree. However, you don't need to make it precisely /y/ (high front rounded). Any high non-back rounded will do. Colin