Re: [lojban] Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea.

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Raphaël_Poss <lojban@raphael.poss.name> wrote:
> Just my 2¢ :   IIRC my phonetics  courses, when  you speak  the stress
> appears  on  consonants,  not vowels. More  precisely,   the stress is
> indicated by a louder  stream of air in  the mouth while the consonant
> is pronounced,  usually by closing the  appropriate parts of the mouth
> more firmly  or narrowing the  open parts. The difference of intensity
> in the vocalisation  of  syllabes (the vowels)  during stress  is much
> less noticeable.

Is this in general, or for some specific language? In Spanish
there are words like "oía" where the stressed syllable is a single
vowel, and the stress does not seem to me less noticeable than 
in "olía" or "podía". 

> This is why, IMHO, stress in Lojban should more logically be indicated
> by capitalizing the consonants alone, not the vowels.
> 
>   mi DJica le nu Cilre la loJban.

How can you tell it's Cilre and not ciLre, for example? Why
loJban and not Lojban? In any case, Lojban's morphology requires 
you to identify a vowel carrying the stress to be able to sort 
out the stream of sounds into words.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




	
		
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