Re: Ow! Hot, hot!

[cowan (John Cowan)]

la ran. heil. evnz. cusku di'e:
> P.S. Why do you use an apostrophe instead of an h?

For a couple of reasons.  The main one is that "'" isn't a consonant
by our standards; it only appears between vowels, and really represents
a "voiceless vowel glide".  People whose native language doesn't include
[h] can still usually manage it intervocalically.  The reason for the "'"
is to add lots of diphthongs:  "a'i" sounds quite distinct from "ai" and
"a'a" from "a".

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