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Rh IInd. — Shortwords of 2 dissimilar vowels. They are to the number of 16.

These staffwords represent all of different sorts:

1° staffwords finishing by u signify:

au : the following noun is a proper name.

eu : the following word of an other language than that of the speaker and equally of an other one than that of the interlocutor, or yet a technical word.

iu : the following word of the language of the interlocutor or of the correspondent (of the person to whom one speaks or writes).

ou : the following word is a word of the native language of the speaker or of the writer (of the person who speaks or writes).

The two first words — au and eu — will say « look out » and warn that the word following one of these terms may be unknown, as it is a special word; a proper name or a strange word to both parties concerned.

The two last words — iu and ou — will be very useful for rapidity of elocution and writing in case of a word forgotten in the interlocutor's language, since they will permit to continue the speech (or the correspondence) skipping, so to say, a word (See p. 55).

2o staffwords, indispensable to be known, offer the possibility of translating the whole of the notions contained in two entire classes of words; they symbolize the ideas of connexion and designation:

io, as expression of subordination in general.

This word could supply a preposition whatever.

oi, as expression of conjunction in general.

This word could supply a conjunction whatever.

ea, as general expression of designation with the idea unity.

This word could supply an article, an adjective or a pronoun in singular whatever.

ae, as general expression of designation with the idea of plurality.

This word could supply an article, an adjective or a pronoun in plural whatever.