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On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:54:15PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> The form {xa'o} has the advantage that it was first proposed in 1993,
> so it has some history behind it and many people already recognize it.
> It is also one of the very few unofficial cmavo that actually gets used.
> Personally, I don't have a problem with giving it a new form, but it
> seems that the xVV space is pointless then: if some xVV cmavo is successful
> and gets used, it has no chance of becoming official under the form that
> people recognize it? If that is how things work, it is much better
> when proposing an experimental cmavo to not use a xVV form, just in case
> the cmavo is successful. (In fact, that's what people tend to do now it
> would seem, for example with {mu'ei} which is another of the very few
> that get used.)

Is {mu'ei} still used? I thought the "discovery" of {ka'e <sumti>} made
it unnecessary (and also has the advantage of not having the silly
quantifier on it).

I was one of the proponents of {mu'ei}, but now I don't see its point.
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Rob Speer