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Re: Tong-cho-la, a philosophical language

From:Andrew Nowicki <andrew@...>
Date:Friday, April 18, 2003, 14:17
Andrew Nowicki wrote:

AN> Example: yos-son-ni sounds like yo-so-ni.

Joe Fatula wrote:

JF> True.  There are a few such combinations that could
JF> be possible.  But consider an example using English,
JF> the similarity of the words sleep and slip.  If I
JF> said a sentence that sounded like "I was getting tired,
JF> so I decided to go to slip.", you'd know that I meant "sleep"...

If you use only CV, CVV and CCV root words, this problem
will disappear. Examples of good CCV root words: gla, ngi, gmu.

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Joe Fatula <fatula3@...>