Re: [bpfk] official cmavo form

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Robert LeChevalier scripsit:

> I have not been following this discussion, and defer to Cowan if he
> disagrees with anything I say, but my recollection is that we
> permitted "glides" to be WRITTEN in fu'ivla, but that they were
> considered to the equivalent of the same string with a close-comma
> between the two letters, so that tuitsku would be the same word as
> tu,itsku

That's true.  But the trouble with tu,itsku is that it can't be well
distinguished from tu,uitsku.  In short, my view is that fu'ivla should
allow the same combinations, and only the same combinations, as lujvo,
with the addition (though I don't like them much) of the syllabic consonants.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
Values of beeta will give rise to dom!
(5th/6th edition 'mv' said this if you tried to rename '.' or
'..' entries; see http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html)

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