Thanks for your answers!
I'm happily learning on...
I don't agree though with :
but for names of places
everyone can use any stress they like That was the problem, in the course I didn't know what the word uacintyn meant, written or when i spoke it aloud. Language is meant to convey information, and if people don't give enough of it i don't know what they mean. I couldn't figure out what uacintyn meant. They should give me the right syllable to stress, so I'm able to think of washington.
Thanks again,
Tom.
On the other hand, to be safe from what? Any stress (even even
stress) is permitted in cmevla, so no stress indication is really
needed. "uacintyn" is the same name in Lojban no matter how one
chooses to stress
it. In the case of personal names, if someone
gets cranky when people don't stress their name the way they
prefer, they can mark their preferred stress (and people may
choose to comply, just to be polite), but for names of places
everyone can use any stress they like, just as they can use any
tone, which also makes no difference. There is no official way to
mark tone, but perhaps when we have Lojbanists from languages
that use tone some convention will develop to mark tone in Lojban
cmevla, and the effect will be the same.
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