On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Mathias M. Lassailly wrote:
> Ray wrote :
>
> > The problem it seems to me is that we need 8 vowel symbols & the Romans
> > bequeathed us only 6: a,e,i,o,u,y. (As you know, was used only as a vowel
> > by the Romans.)
> >
> > We need two other symbols;
> Why did Latin only bequeath those miserable 6 vowels ?
> Wasn't it just to emmerde future conlangers ?
Their nastiest trick was to eliminate K and confuse C.
> I agree with 'w' to balance 'y'.
> But why not nice accents on vowels,
Better to digraph them, I think; OE and AE and ...
> Or wait for Windows 2XXX :-)
Godot never does arrive.