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Alan Anderson ([email protected])

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• Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:56:32 -0500
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ja' Philip Newton:

> Also, if a {w} or {y} after a vowel is also considered a vowel, as
> part of a diphthong, and if TKD's conjecture is correct, then a word
> such as {Duy'oy} would be ambiguous between "dear agent" and "dear
> defect". (While the difference in semantics should be clear from
> context, I consider the ambiguous morphology unaesthetic.)

We've already got the ambiguous {jIloy}.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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