Re: [bpfk] official cmavo form

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> It sounds like there are all these exceptions because the rule is
> wrongly formulated. If syllables are discarded and the metrical units
> are instead AEIOU clusters, might the rule become exceptionless?

It would get worse:  we would have to have an exception for words like /stabaa/
explaining why it is /sta'baa/ rather than /'stabaa/.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
"The exception proves the rule."  Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves
my theory."  Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts
the rule to the proof."  But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an
exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."

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