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

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, November 9, 2001, 0:38
En réponse à Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>:

> > Well, there are words in Japanese like _joou_ "Queen", where _ou_ is > an > orthographic convention for [o:], thus it's a triple long "o". > There's > even at least one quadruple /o/ that I've encountered, the title > _kouou_ > "Duke" (as well as a anime character's surname, Hououji) >
Haa, Magic Knight Rayearth :)) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.