BPFK Section: Hesitation
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:47:08PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
>
> > Oh, dude, you *must* be joking. Can someone research this
> > carefully and get back to us with chapter and verse? Pretty
> > please?
>
> In cmene, y can be initial, and the diphthongs iy and uy (yuh and
> wuh respectively) are allowed, as are V'y, y'V, and y'y.
>
> I think that V'y and y'V are permitted experimental cmavo, but I'm
> not sure.
Yes, I was full of shit. My bad.
> Just to weigh in:
>
> 1) I don't mind playing games with the word .y. to make it
> ignored, but I do object to *@#$ing with the letter y, as if it
> were less in use than it really is.
Yes, as I said, my bad.
> 2) I could see changing zo .y. fu to mean zo fu.
Cool.
> 3) I'd have to be convinced pretty strongly that .y.bu should die.
Yeah, I'm a lot less interested in that than I was.
> 4) Anything more than that I veto.
Half-veto, technically.
-Robin
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