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Robin wrote:

> Martin Norbäck wrote:
>
>> fre 2003-05-16 klockan 10.28 skrev robin:
>>
>>> OK, let's kill this thread before the Lojban lists turns into the 
>>> Great Window Manager Debate.  And don't anyone dare start talking 
>>> about vi and emacs!
>>
>>
>>
>> First, let me say that vim is the best editor.
>>
>> I'm beginning to wonder why there should be a way to indicate stress at
>> all.
>>
>> The only place where you currently can choose stress is cmene. Why
>> should you be able to do that? It's clear where a cmene ends anyway (it
>> ends with a consonant and a pause).
>>
>> In cmavo, you may stress however you like but the cmavo are still the
>> same words. In brivla you must have penultimate stress. Why not just
>> make it acceptable to stress a cmene in whatever way you like?
>
>
> Because people get touchy about their names. pi,ER. probably doesn't 
> want to have people calling him pi,er.
>
> robin.tr
>
I don't expect my friend Lara  would enjoy being called any of the 
lojbanized name forms one could think up. Why be picky about stress?