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Re: [lojban] Re: Stress of the penultimate syllable



There is a third style of lojban, dotted-and-spaceless style

mi'elOkadin..imiprAmiroda.ui.u'i.iu

I guess I could just write like that, but it's slightly more difficult to understand than it is with spaces,

If you were to write by hand, perhaps you would see the difference, on the contrary, your writing might be as nice as a font -- mine is not.

computer parsing of text is much easier when it's standardized, and if you aren't using spaces, as they are optional, it becomes very unclear what is going on

miklamalaparis.fulekarce.imicitkalogerkuzo'o

becomes very difficult to understand.

personally I really don't care how you do your lOjban,  if you don't want to capitalize the penultimate syllable of your brIvla, by all means, if you at some future point do decide to however, I fully support you. If for no other reason than I will  find it more legible.


On 10/30/06, Alex Joseph Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:
doi lokadin

Perhaps it is easier to read for you, but it makes it very difficult to
read for me. There are, as I know, two major styles of writing normal
Lojban -- dotted and non-dotted. Dotted is like CLL uses, every
mandatory pause is dotted. Some folks (like xorxes) prefer to not write
in the dots since they are not needed when we write with spaces; which
we all do anyhow.

Neither of these established styles allow capitals outside of cmene. For
comparison, think of accenting every polysyllabic word in English. Yes it
might serve a useful purpose, but it's not the accepted way to write
English. Lojban doesn't have any need for the accents because it's
always accented in the same place.

Boiling it down, I don't like the accents on every word because it's not
needed, it's distracting, and none of the other text in the corpus or
baseline does it.

pei?

mu'omi'e aleks

to la lokadin pu ciska de'i li 2006 pi'e 10 pi'e 30 toi
> mi rovu'upAmoi  slAka bAsna .i ki'u la'edi'u sAmpu se jImpe mi
>
> There are actually three levels of stress --- primary, secondary, and
> weak.
>> [ li'o ]


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