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[lojban-beginners] Re: nice to meet you
Selon Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu>:
> >> Perhaps { .oi nai ro'a }
> >> mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan
> >
> > Why not ".oinai" (in one word)?
> >
> > The Germans say "angenehm" (one word). And the
> > French "enchante" (one word, too). It seems
> > strange that Lojban needs three? English, needing
> > four words to express the same thing, IS
> > certainly strange.
> >
> > Martin
>
> I think it's worth pointing out that {.oinai ro'a} and {.oi nai
> ro'a}, and even {.oinairo'a} are exactly the same. Since they're
> cmavo, the spaces are optional. So there's no sense calling them "2
> words", "3 words" and "1 word" -- it's any of those depending on how
> you want to think about it, and 3 cmavo.
What about the stress rule "For words consisting of two or
more syllables: stress the last but one syllable." Doesn't
it apply here as anywhere else?
If so, the three phrases
.OI nAI rO'a
.OInai rO'a
.oinairO'a
would sound differently, wouldn't they?
If so, we have three phrases with three different
pronunciations and three different spellings meaning
all three EXACTLY the same. This is VERY confusing
at least for beginners!
I expected Lojban to be simple and easy!
Introducing too much "freedom" makes the language
atcually more unnecessary difficult to learn. Don't
you agree?
I think beginners should learn to write
and pronounce words seperately in such phrases.
Martin