From robin@bilkent.edu.tr Fri May 16 10:46:25 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 16 May 2003 10:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19GjHE-0001fm-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 16 May 2003 10:46:01 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4552C3221A for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 20:45:18 +0300 (EEST) Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (ppp118.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.118]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E413220C for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 20:45:16 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3EC540FB.2080208@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 20:50:19 +0100 From: Robin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography. Yes, another one. References: <20030515144522.T24498-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> <3EC41B08.1000503@bilkent.edu.tr> <20030516024521.GA1036@swbell.net> <3EC4A11C.2010403@bilkent.edu.tr> <1053094760.27323.24.camel@ludvig.safelogic.se> In-Reply-To: <1053094760.27323.24.camel@ludvig.safelogic.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 X-archive-position: 5313 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Martin Norbäck wrote: > fre 2003-05-16 klockan 10.28 skrev robin: > >>OK, let's kill this thread before the Lojban lists turns into the Great >>Window Manager Debate. And don't anyone dare start talking about vi and >>emacs! > > > First, let me say that vim is the best editor. > > I'm beginning to wonder why there should be a way to indicate stress at > all. > > The only place where you currently can choose stress is cmene. Why > should you be able to do that? It's clear where a cmene ends anyway (it > ends with a consonant and a pause). > > In cmavo, you may stress however you like but the cmavo are still the > same words. In brivla you must have penultimate stress. Why not just > make it acceptable to stress a cmene in whatever way you like? Because people get touchy about their names. pi,ER. probably doesn't want to have people calling him pi,er. robin.tr -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin