Subject: Re: [lojban] Fu'ivla diphthongs

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 07:51:33 -0500

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