From: | charles <catty@...> |
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Date: | Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 19:57 |
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Edward Heil wrote:> Vowels are defined in a "chain" that zigzags through the mouth: > > i -> u -> e -> o -> a. Schwa (@) is not part of the chain.> At the beginning of a sentence, all the vowels are i. However, each > time a parenthesis is opened, you jump one vowel down the chain.Danoven used a mechanism like that for conjunctions, I think.> You can't go more than five levels deep in the language as I've figured > it out at this point.Diphthongs!