Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)

        Yes, but as I mentioned, I disagree with the practice.  Since it's
impossible to have two like vowels next to each other without a glottal stop
inserted in between, why write an apostrophe?  It just slows down writing.
There are glottal stops in the language between other vowels, so that you do
get minimal pairs.  My favorite is with /au/.  There is:

  au [au]
  a'u [a?u]
  'au [?au]
  'a'u [?a?u]

        How they can tell that there's a glottal stop at the beginning of a
word without a preceding word is beyond me.  Oh, and those four all mean
different things, but you're just going to have to trust me, since I'm away
from all my Hawaiian materials.  ~:D

Well, I had mine at hand, so a quick translation:

au           time period, era, passage of time, movement
a'u          swordfish/marlin; also: "me" used in some instances
'au           to swim, travel by sea
'a'u           <I couldn't find this one>

Maarten van Beek