From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Jan 19 19:25:07 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:25:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JGQnz-0003TK-5S for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:25:07 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JGQny-0003TC-DA for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:25:06 -0800 Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:25:06 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Text-to-speech Message-ID: <20080120032506.GS5606@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <4f61d245b9jsd@clara.co.uk> <20080117175100.GV31951@nvg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080117175100.GV31951@nvg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-archive-position: 14123 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:51:00PM +0100, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > Do not stress any single-syllable cmavo. Unless you can insert a > pause after it. ("le NO bliprenu" becomes "le nobli prenu", but > "le NO. bliprenu" is okay.) Possibly not even then, since it > sounds strange. If you *can* insert a pause, please stress all NAI, NA, and CAI cmavo, to wit: cai cu'i pei ru'e sai nai na ja'a (on the first syllable, if more than one) That's how I speak it, anyways; I stress these for emphasis. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.