New: * "A" This marker is used to address the speaker. ven fu domut a li johan. go to home {a} (name) John. Come home, John. * Superlatives are best. The "-IT"...

... From: <sasxsek@...> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 1:47 AM ... Ah, the Irish vocative marker... very good, much better than pretending something in...

... Good point about <li>. I was thinking the same thing since there aren't really many occasions when there won't be a proper noun following it. Maybe this...

... It's done. The "-o" is now gone but I'm not sure yet if I'll use it elsewhere....

Here is the proposed list of allowed consonant combinations. Are there any here that some think may be a problem? The only one I have some reservations about...

... Maybe we shouldn't have word-initial consonant clusters that begin with a fricative. For example even something as European as Hungarian doesn't allow fl-;...

... I didn't know of that limitation in Hungarian. Do they have [vl] or [vr]? ... /h/ should be [x] but possible allophones are [h] [X]. So /xw/ could also be...

... At least not word-initially. (For what it's worth, even German doesn't have word-initial [vl] or [vr], and I can't think of English examples either. [fl]...

... Don't know of any English examples either but I have never heard any English speakers have a problem pronouncing names like "Vladimir" (which most English...

... There are people (German monoglots) over here who tend to let my dad <Vladislav> start with [f]. ... If it were, you couldn't whisper it. Whisper [v] and...

UT -> O The <-ut> suffix has been changed to <-o>. The website and dictionary have been updated to reflect the changes. Here are a few examples. besut ->...

* The dictionary has just reached the 2500 word milestone. Lexicon development continues. The addition of a few consonant clusters has greatly helped in...

The reference materials, both online and the downloadable PDF's, have been revised to reflect the latest and to hopefully provide a little more detail than...