Re: OT: babel and english

I wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Samuel Rivier wrote:
>>
>> > It would be cool if we could have a very very very
>> > easy auxlang here- it would attract a very diverse
>> > crowd
>>
>>I nominate "Uk".  Uk is, without a doubt, the world's simplist auxlang.
>>It contains two, and only two, phonemes.  /@/ and /k/, which are only
>>permitted to form the word /@k/.   All words are uk.  All ideas are uk.
>>Indeed, all auxlang is uk.  Uk has the additional feature of distilling
>>the purest essence of the IAL, that being stupidity, into its most
>>concentrated form.
>>
>>As the Manifesto of Uk (or to give it it's uk title:  uk) says:
>>
>>
>>uk
>>uk uk
>>uk uk uk uk uk uk
>>uk
>
>Hey! You failed to mention what phones are acceptable for /@/ and /k/! I
>assume that practically any vowel'd do for /@/, but on behalf on all lazy
>people I sincerely hope that you don't have any ideas that /k/ has to be
>tense or a stop!
After hiring someone to do my thinking for me, I realized that as /k/ only
occurs following /@/, and /@/ is always followed by /k/, you can simply skip
pronouncing the /k/. So, using my new improved orthography, the Manifesto'd
be:

@
@@
@@@@@@
@

                                                 Andreas


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