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

At 04.28 a.m. 3.11.2001 -0500, you wrote:
><<By the way, anyone know of a natlang which has triple
>vowels, and commonly makes us of them?>>
>
>       Why, look no farther than the world's most perfect language,
> Hawaiian! ~:D  Of course, I see the two responses you've gone have been
> like vowels in trios...  Did you mean only vowels of the same quality, or
> just vowels in general?  Because if you stick two like vowels together in
> Hawaiian, a glottal stop is automatically inserted in between (which is
> why it need not be represented orthographically), so "Hawaii" is
> [havAi?i].  And it, of course, has three vowels next to each other.  :)
Well, if we're going to do that, look no further than the world's most
perfect pizza, the Hawaiian! ~:D Four consectutive vowels there.

Tristan