Re: it's what I do

dirk elzinga wrote:
> Hey, ya gotta go where the muse takes you. I have also avoided super
> heavy syllables in Tepa, although they may show up under exceptional
> circumstances, like encliticization of indefinite/interrogative =tte
> to a word ending in a long vowel. The clitic keeps its geminate, and
> the host keeps its long vowel, resulting in a super heavy syllable.
There's one example in Utakassí of a long vowel followed by a geminate,
and that's piniaazzá, destruction (incidentally, I'd made a mistake on
my "amusing co-incidences" post, preparation is just piniassá, still
pretty similar, tho).  Perhaps I should eliminate that by shortening the
vowel.  Yes, done.

  However, just the other day, I'd considered a change, for
post-Classical Utakassí wherein long vowels become short in closed
syllables, thus, something like _ukatúuf_ (name, genetive) would become
_ukatúf_.

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