Ray Brown skribis:

> Exactly what I thought would be the case.  Don't understand why James said
> it wasn't in Novial.

Oh dear, you've all misunderstood.
I actually said, rather ambiguously:
QUESTION is not a derived word in any language with which I am familiar,
and nor is it in Novial.
I hope you can put the sentence together now and see what I actually
meant.

Getting back to the point, there seems to be a phonetic exception here
for words in -STION in national languages.  These are the only words
which contain the [t] sound, whereas all those in -ATION, -ITION,
-UTION and also eg. ACTION etc. (or their equivalents) are pronounced
differently.  So clearly it would not be practicable to specify a
different sound for -TI-, or even just for that combination in derived
words, as we have eg. DIGEST/ION which is derived.
I suppose the only alternative is to make the suffix -(S)IONE, and
respell NASIONE etc.  But then what about ACTIONE?  Surely this
should also have the [s] sound.

This all illustrates the problems of introducing -(T)ION as a
proper suffix - ones which would seem to me to rule decisively
against its introduction in any new IAL.
[And no, the Novial group does not have the sole rights to the
discussion of this point, as it is important for IAL design in
general.]

James Chandler.