[lojban-beginners] Re: Stress.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 12:28:36PM -0500, Chris Capel wrote:
> On 9/2/06, HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Well, {fe'ire'a} is 2 words in a cmavo cluster. So it's {fE'i
> >> rE'a}. mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan
> >
> >But you can say them as one word, can't you?
> 
> If you mean to ask, can you stress them so that they become a
> lujvo, then no. If you mean, can you stress E in re'a and have
> them be interpreted the same (as two cmavo), then I think yes. I
> think there might be a danger of confusion if you say them
> directly after a brivla, and you don't stress the brivla.

It is *always* in error to fail to stress brivla.  Otherwise
"miklama" parses two ways; there happens to be no word "mikla", but
there are other examples where both possibilities are valid.

-Robin

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