long .L

[Jacob Baltuch]

>I've always thought that long vocalit .L was necessary in the Sanskrit
>alphabet in order to be able to construct sentences saying that it does
>not exist.

Hmm. This would apply equally well to any letter Sanskrit didn't have.
There's got to be a better way to say this. At least there's got to be
a reason why it was necessary to construct sentences saying that long
syllabic L didn't exist but not that, say, short E or O didn't exist.