From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed May 05 08:39:04 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 91026 invoked from network); 5 May 2004 15:39:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 May 2004 15:39:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.36) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 May 2004 15:39:04 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA02173; Wed, 5 May 2004 11:28:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 5 May 2004 11:35:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:35:12 -0400 To: Zefram Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20040505153511.GC9076@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <20040505135550.62211.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 65.246.141.36 From: jcowan@reutershealth.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea. X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22128 Zefram scripsit: > I can happily pronounce "lojban" as "LO,jban". That is canonical, since "jb" is an initial cluster. > Has anyone considered, as a possible principle, that stress marking should > not require (or otherwise interact with) syllabification marking? There really is no need to properly mark the syllable boundaries at all. Close-comma is nothing but an orthographic convenience, as its presence or absence can never change either the parsing or the meaning of words. -- John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan .e'osai ko sarji la lojban. Please support Lojban! http://www.lojban.org