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Re: [lojban] Brochure updates
Jim Peters wrote:
- Right at the start, the pronounciation of so'eroi is written
"soh-heh-ROI", but shouldn't it be "soh-HEH-roi" according to the
rules ?
There actually are no rules for stress in compound cmavo.
- I have some trouble with the idea of syllabic constanants as
described. Why can't Carl, Miriam, Ellen and Burt be written {kal}
{miriam} {elen} and {byt} ? Is this my UK English showing ?
Yes.
I'm
also using Spanish pronunciation for `r' (as permitted according to
some other document) as I can't honestly see how to combine an
English `r' with the pure Spanish-style vowel-sounds. So {brt}
sounds like "burut".
Well, if Serbians, Croats, and Bosnians can cope, why can't you? :-)
If they're only needed for names, no big deal
if I say them wrong, probably. Is it just me that's confused ?
Unfortunately, syllabic consonants appear in fu'ivla too.
- At the end of the phonology section, where it talks about stressing
the penultimate syllable, I think it would be worth mentioning here
that apostrophe counts as a syllable boundary, so {blari'o} is three
syllables. I was confused about this for some time until I found a
mention in the reference grammar.
Good point.
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