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



Zefram scripsit:

> I can happily pronounce "lojban" as "LO,jban".  

That is canonical, since "jb" is an initial cluster.

> Has anyone considered, as a possible principle, that stress marking should
> not require (or otherwise interact with) syllabification marking?  

There really is no need to properly mark the syllable boundaries at all.
Close-comma is nothing but an orthographic convenience, as its presence
or absence can never change either the parsing or the meaning of words.

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