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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Preliminary chapter 1 for Lojban learners
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2009/3/18 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> You won't be pronouncing a different word if
> you choose a different stress than the one proposed for you.

  Says who?  Unlike cmavo, stress may in fact be the only difference
in cmevla  between two differently named things.  If I have one friend
named BArux, and another name baRUX, I can distinguish them in speech
by use of stress, and I can distinguish them in writing by use of
capitals.  And if I don't choose to use the capitals, then the refgram
says it's the former, not the latter, that I must be talking about.
(Chapter 4, section 8: "Names may have almost any form, but always end
in a consonant, and are followed by a pause. They are penultimately
stressed, unless unusual stress is marked with capitalization.")


>
> Given the above, my preference is to never indicate a preferred
> stressed for cmevla, and leave the choice to the reader.

             --gejyspa