[lojban-beginners] Re: alice questions

[Sunnan <sunnan@handgranat.org>]

la xorxes. pu finti:

> On 8/14/05, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
> > First, {bo}. When you see the sequence {i PU bo}, does that mean that
> > bo is grouping the two bridi together, using the sense of the PU cmavo
> > used?
> >    
>
> Yes, more generally any {i <tag> bo}.
>  
e'o ko jarco lo mupli

> > Third. In {i la'e di'u no'e ba'e mutce le ka cizra}, what kind of
> > cadence might that be spoken with? Is stress usually put on {ba'e}, or
> > on the next word? 
> >    
>
> One theory is that you could/should read it in a monotone, the emphasis being
> taken care of just by the presence of {ba'e}. I would emphasize the next word,
> never {ba'e}.  
>  
I would like to read it:  "i LA'e DI'u NO'e BA'e MUTce le ka CIZra", 
with mutce as a lot more stressed than the other words. Sort of like a 
little melody.

>  
>
> > And in {leka} and {lenu}, is stress usually put on
> > the first or second cmavo?
> >    
>
> I tend to stress the second if any, and don't usually write them together.
>  
I love writing them together and I like to put stress on both, though 
more on the second.