From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Wed Jan 12 04:20:54 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:20:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41906.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.157]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CohUT-0007OZ-QN for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:20:45 -0800 Received: (qmail 42749 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Jan 2005 12:20:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20050112122014.42747.qmail@web41906.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.49.74.2] by web41906.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:20:09 PST Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:20:09 -0800 (PST) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: pronunciation with cmavo and brivla To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <737b61f305011121232b29e043@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-archive-position: 9237 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Chris Capel wrote: > Aren't brivla always pronounced on the penultimate syllable, thus > making a pause in those cases with brivla longer than two syllables > flow much more naturally with speech than "le RE. NANmu"? (You try > saying it with a glottal stop, as you would want to in normal > speech--it sounds terrible.) It would seem that if it were meant to > apply only to three-syllable brivla, the example was very poorly > chosen. Maybe something like {RE. SPAti} would have been a better example. It is not clear whether {RESPAti} should break as {re spati} or as {respa ti}, as in both cases the brivla has a stressed penultimate syllable. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com