Re: loglan rapprochement orthography

[ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

> >On the whole I prefer this standard to the standard standard, but I'm
> >a bit worried by "ao" - that's more than a matter of orthography, for
> >it appears to be saying "here is a /o/" where the standard standard
> >says "here is a /u/".
> Take it up with JCB - he insists, in the face of linguistic convention,
> that the au diphthong is really an ao diphthong. However you represent
> it, it is the same sound, which I am sure in IPA would continue to be
> represented with a 'u'.

No, in IPA it could reasonably be represented with [o] as well as [u].

Anyway, it seems then that these are alternative phonologies as well as
alternative orthographies. One has /au/ and no /ao/, and the other has
/ao/ and no /au/.

coo, mie and