[lojban-beginners] Re: Preliminary chapter 1 for Lojban learners

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 3/18/2009 09:00:29 Eastern Daylight Time, mturniansky@gmail.com writes:


> Unlike cmavo, stress may in fact be the only difference
> in cmevla  between two differently named things.  If I have one friend
> named BArux, and another name baRUX, I can distinguish them in speech
> by use of stress, and I can distinguish them in writing by use of
> capitals.  And if I don't choose to use the capitals, then the refgram
> says it's the former, not the latter, that I must be talking about.


Neither English nor Hebrew marks the stress in Baruch.  Lojban isn't as ambiguous about its word stress as those two, but writing the name in both cases as "barux" doesn't seem wrong to me.  
And as xorxes pointed out, they're still grammatically the same word.

stevo