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RE: [lojban] Re: (C)V'{i|u}V



Richard:
> So this raises a new question, should we treat any vowel pair that is
> not a valid diphthong as though it has a hidden comma in it?
> 
> ai, au, ei and oi would always have to be left as they are.
> 
> Others (aa,ae,ao,ea,ee,eo,eu,oa,oe,oo,ou) _could_ be automatically
> treated as though they have a comma (==apostrophe).  But is this
> entertained by the baseline?

In my more heteropractic youth I used to use this orthography. I
believe it is officially entertained as part of the TLI rapprochement
orthography, because JCB -- clearly a man of good taste -- hated these
bloody apostrophes.
 
--And.