Return-Path: <@SEGATE.SUNET.SE:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0s8tBi-0009acC; Tue, 9 May 95 20:35 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 6F2BF9DB ; Tue, 9 May 1995 19:34:58 +0100 Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 12:58:19 -0400 Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" Sender: Lojban list From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Subject: Re: Questions X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199505091628.MAA22499@cs.columbia.edu> (message from Chris Bogart on Tue, 9 May 1995 09:10:03 -0600) Content-Length: 807 Lines: 22 >Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 09:10:03 -0600 >From: Chris Bogart >>> .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. > ____ > Chris Bogart \ / ftp://ftp.csn.net/cbogart/html/homepage.html > Quetzal Consulting \/ cbogart@quetzal.com ~mark