From cowan Tue Nov 14 14:49:14 1995 Subject: Re: TECH: Pitch Accent From: John Cowan To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 14:49:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199511141843.NAA20913@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Nov 14, 95 06:21:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 579 Status: OR Message-ID: la .and. cusku di'e > I'm not sure [pitch accent]'s a good idea though. It's okay for people who are > happy with stress, since I, at least, hear the accented syllable in > Japanese and in Serbo-Croat as stressed. But how would a pitch- > accent lojbanist cope with someone who says selBRIdi amphibrachically > stresswise, but with hi-lo-hi pitch? There could be all sorts of > confusion. > > We should be careful to consider things from the hearer's perspective. Agreed. I'm prepared to declare the idea dead. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.