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> But notice that gismu and lujvo include stress
> as part of their definition. {setcati} cannot be read as {setca ti},
> it is necessarily {se tcati}, because of the penultimate stress.
> And you know that the "a" there is stressed because of the
> space (or end of text) after {setcati}.

That makes sense!

> White space is optional as long as stress is indicated,
> otherwise, the white space at the end of a brivla is
> itself the indicator of stress and can't be omitted. That's
> why I said {lekomEnlibazimakcu} was also a possibility.

That sure is too bad... I played around with the options you provided,
but they take away from the effect. I thought it would look cool to
split it into {lekomenli bazimakcu}, but it lost some of its creepy
power. Do you think I could get away with putting accents over the
accented vowels rather than capitalizing them? I know it's not proper
Lojban, but proper Lojban was not designed to look really cool in
print, so I'm trying to forge a compromise.

> Au contraire! Truly brave nations don't need to hide behind
> strident colours. :)

I suppose that as long as a culture is brave enough, any symbol at all
could come to represent that bravery. Once other nations stop
questioning it, you're set. But c'mon, a nation with no state, no
land,  no army (hacker geeks definitely don't count) AND a pastel
flag?? I'll leave it at, "there will be challenges."


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