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Re: here is some stuff i want all of ya'll to look at even though you have better things to do.

From:David Peterson <thatbluecat@...>
Date:Friday, August 27, 2004, 8:12
Much better.   Here are some questions I have:

Joshua wrote:

<<alyo, yeirgin os zhashyep>>

Where "alyo" means "greetings".   Then later...

<<nolyozh>>

Which is the *opposite* of hello.   That's pretty clever;
don't know if I've ever seen it.   Just a quick question: What
happened to the "a" in "alyo"?   Did it disappear because of the
"o" in /no-/?   Did it merge with a different vowel from the
prefix to form [o]?   Is perhaps the actual word /lyo/, but an
[a] gets inserted in the first one because a word can't begin
with [ly]?

A second question I had is about all these stops you have.   Most
of the time it's [b], but sometimes it shows up as [p].   Why is that?
Also, are these a kind of phonological punctuation?   If so, again,
that's pretty interesting.

-David
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