[lojban-beginners] Re: vowel length

["Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

When you make a new recording of a different word with the same vowel,
make it a different length than the length you gave that vowel before.
If you keep mixing it up so that you never have consistency in one
length for a vowel, the learners will not be taught that vowel is
supposed to have any particular length. This is a language in which
vowel length is up to each individual person.
-Eppcott

On 6/23/07, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/23/07, m.kornig@sondal.net <m.kornig@sondal.net> wrote:
> >
> > Vowel lengths are very important in some languages,
> > e.g. in German. Now I wonder:
> >
> > (1) Is it important in Lojban, too?
>
> Not at all.
>
> > (2) And even if it were not *very* important, would it be
> > appropiate to habe arbitrarily different vowel lengths
> > on an e-learning site?
>
> I don't think it's a problem.
>
> > (3) Maybe all vowels should be relatively short in Lojban?
> >
> > (4) Or at least the vowel of the stressed syllable?
> >
> > (5) Or may be the other way round, i.e. long vowels in the
> > stressed syllable?
>
> If I had to choose, I'd say (5), but it is not necessary.
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes