From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Tue May  9 22:30:08 1995
Date:         Tue, 9 May 1995 12:58:19 -0400
From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Questions
To: Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@access.digex.net>
Message-ID: <FUKjgvXxbRG.A.mvE.xt0kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org>

>From: Chris Bogart <cbogart%CSN.ORG@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
>>> .i fe'omi'e dilyn. trsTON.

>>You don't need to capitalize TON, because the o is the only vowel and
>>so it already has the stress anyway.

>Good point, but I'm glad he did it anyway.  I probably would have
(wrongly)
>pronounced it as TRSton. if it had been spelled without capitals.

Is it really so?  The "r" is used vocalically here, and is unambiguously
so, since "trs" is not a valid consonant cluster.  Therefore the "r"
must be syllabic, and as such, according to the rule of da'amoi
terbansa, it would be TRSton. if not otherwise marked.

~mark