Re: phonology of Plan B

In a message dated 7/12/2007 4:33:41 AM Central Daylight Time, 
ray@CAROLANDRAY.PLUS.COM writes:


> If you look at
> http://www.carolandray.plus.com/Loglang/PhonAndOrthog.html
> 
> you will see that:
> * I have given Plan B an alphabet of "w y g k r l z s n ñ d t µ m b p" -
>    Jeff clearly states "the choice is not critical."
> * I have given that 'alphabet' a "scheme which makes all sequences of
>    letters equally pronounceable."
> 
I think Jeff Prothero would have done better to use the eight consonants and 
eight vowels to form 64 CV syllables, thus using six bits per syllable instead 
of four per letter.  Then there would be no question about consonant versus 
vowel; all would be fixed syllables.  
There might still be a slight problem of how to map each of the 64 syllables 
to a unique symbol, forming an 8*8 syllabary, but that shouldn't be necessary 
for the rest of the scheme to work.
It would certainly cause less confusion about how to say the words and how to 
analyse them.

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