Re: [lojban] Re: lojban-list Digest V4 #181

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 8/25/05, Aleksej R. Serdyukov <deletesoftware@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Jorge Llambías wrote:
> > At least Spanish and Greek (also Quenya and probably
> > others) use the acute to mark stress, so why reinvent
> > the wheel? {lekoménlibazimákcu}. Is there any language
> > that uses something else to mark stress?
> >
> > In any case, any diacritic will be better than capitalization!
> 
> Hmm! I will use it now anytime if anything more than I, L or T should have
> been capitalized.

Only a, e, i, o, u need ever be marked for stress. I prefer
to reserve capitals for lerfu words, in the same way that
digits are used for digit words. See:
<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Capitals%20as%20letter%20names>

> Though it's not very good with i - í may be very close
> in some fonts... 

I've never had any trouble with it, but maybe I'm biased
since my last name is spelled with an í.  :)

> î too, ï is nice, but not for that. :-)
> Will {zai basna bu tcita bu} work to mark that?

In what context?

{zai} converts the following lerfu or tei-foi group into an 
alphabet shift, so you'd probably want 
{zai tei basna bu tcita bu foi} or {zai basnytcita bu}.
But I'm not sure what you would want to use it for.
To indicate how a full sentence is spelled?

mu'o mi'e xorxes