From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Dec 04 13:41:08 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_2); 4 Dec 2000 21:41:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 30885 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2000 21:40:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Dec 2000 21:40:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 4 Dec 2000 22:41:39 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09140; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:41:43 -0500 (EST) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <3A2C0EF4.8DFC320B@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 16:39:00 -0500 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Scriven , "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] mz References: <90h2ns+or28@eGroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan David Scriven wrote: > > Why was "mz" included in the list of forbidden non-initial consonant > clusters? Can't be difficulty of pronunciation, so there must be > some interesting technical reason. Because JCB did some very limited testing and found out it was confusable with "nz". We kept the restriction out of conservatism. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein