From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Jun 23 08:13:45 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I27J2-0002HH-QL for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:13:45 -0700 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.244]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I27J0-0002H3-65 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:13:44 -0700 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b21so294461ana for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:13:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nCu3RyL4NwNfZhZ2L3EyJ6Fn3XIJsUSnfxpM2yaF0hSfwnoKEkL5ecHFVEUpGE5kdsTUWOW9mwLtyFGN87ZhoFF+bMzE1FssnlabaYkJEyFvNXliXopbqstL/a1HRde7Ji5bo1UPQKk9Fa/CUBTvyGa5tqX82l5Vxf5ZcBP3908= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Hao4vOYRhEk+/9XT7WXvw8eUID9GqFRbNvZXqOY0vmamdCVGAqvwXK3WnyMSHnN5XWPN1Ot9bZ8yHkLxgE1u3tcqFZDH8fjb3p6tc10x6p2bYMbCK+47Hy4zpN0j+oBy9aJ6NAkK+8a5Q6wwTZb9aWBl972+1Sd00Toti1fklzM= Received: by 10.100.137.18 with SMTP id k18mr2240617and.1182611621043; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.42.17 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d17560706230813w3a5da387h46b0402051e134ce@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:13:41 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: vowel length In-Reply-To: <1182600774.467d0e464e77a@ssl0.ovh.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1182600774.467d0e464e77a@ssl0.ovh.net> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5119 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 6/23/07, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote: > > Vowel lengths are very important in some languages, > e.g. in German. Now I wonder: > > (1) Is it important in Lojban, too? Not at all. > (2) And even if it were not *very* important, would it be > appropiate to habe arbitrarily different vowel lengths > on an e-learning site? I don't think it's a problem. > (3) Maybe all vowels should be relatively short in Lojban? > > (4) Or at least the vowel of the stressed syllable? > > (5) Or may be the other way round, i.e. long vowels in the > stressed syllable? If I had to choose, I'd say (5), but it is not necessary. mu'o mi'e xorxes