Re: [lojban-beginners] Songs and poetry in Lojban

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Monday, January 12, 2015 05:38:19 Erik Natanael Gustafsson wrote:
> Can you sing on the buffer vowels though? From what I've read about them,
> they are to be as short as possible. Would it be good Lojban to treat them
> as syllables if you make sure the real syllables are even longer?

The buffer vowel is not a phoneme; it's a vowel stuck between two consonants by 
people who have trouble pronouncing them together. It normally doesn't make 
sense to sing it as a syllable. Occasionally one might do so in some style of 
music. I know of a song in Spanish where the word "precioso" is sung as four 
syllables; it's much more common in Spanish to sing two vowels to one note 
which would be separate syllables in speech.

Pierre
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