From phma@webjockey.net Sat Nov 30 04:51:39 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 30 Nov 2002 12:51:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 92031 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2002 12:51:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Nov 2002 12:51:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Nov 2002 12:51:39 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0DCCA3C5F3; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 07:51:37 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Fu'ivla diphthongs Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 07:51:33 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <5.1.0.14.0.20021129210004.03152dd0@pop.east.cox.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20021130000308.03a38a90@pop.east.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20021130000308.03a38a90@pop.east.cox.net> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0211300751330S.02982@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Saturday 30 November 2002 00:04, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > >In fu'ivla, SO ia-iu and ua-uu are unchanged in alternate orthography, and > > SO i'a-i'u and u'a-u'u are AO i,a-i,u and u,a-u,u. So: > >SO kuarka = AO kuarka > >SO ku'arka = AO ku,arka > >SO ku,arka = AO kuarka , since the comma is ignored in SO. > > Precisely. So ua is allowed in kuarka. Now repeat the analysis for > srutio/sruti'o. SO srutio = AO srutio SO sruti'o = AO srutio So the alternate orthography is broken. There is a string of letters for which the pronunciation is not unique. Since it is not standard, and has not been used, then why not just drop it? phma