And Rosta wrote:
My preferred scheme for getting rid of apostrophes is to replace i and u in diphthongs by y and w and then delete all apostrophes. The resulting orthography is, I think, unambiguous, but it makes the signification of <y> subject to more complex rules than the other letters. That extra complexity had been called by Lojbab a deviation from AVI.
Indeed, it would be: specifically, it would cease to be an isomorphism, since <y> would sometimes mean [@] and sometimes [j]. You are free to retort that already <i> means sometimes /i/ and sometimes /j/, but I will riposte that there is no /j/ in Lojban. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel