ki'e John - that's a pretty good summary of what I was trying to express.These caps are not exactly random, but pointless since most of the words are one syllable and a[ li'o ]Is thIs tExt EAsier tO rEAd? I thInk nOt, becAUse yOU cannOt rEAd It At AnOrmal pAce bUt hAve to slOw dOwn. (It Also lOOks prEtty Ugly.)that's the line I was refering to with the Wikipedia comment. If you are truly fluent in lOjban then you should have no difficulty understanding allits forms.few of them are virtually accentless by nature.No difficulty is a matter of taste: I take it that the point is that having to shift from Gestaltreading to letter reading is considered a difficulty in this context.
And, yes this is admittedly a rather poor sample of accented English as there are so many monosyllables.
But as for fluency in Lojban... If I were fluent in Lojban then I would read it with more speed than I do now. The sort of speed I use to read English. The sort of speed that involves looking at *groups* of letters all at once. So the extra caps would make it more difficult to read, not less.
I think the main issue here is learning. I'm going to consider a hypothetical lojbanic beginner. As a beginner in a language, they have the tendency to do thing that make it easy (easier) for them. To the beginner, especially the beginner who only know English, the caps on every syllable might be helpful until they internalize the pattern of stress. After all, the stress rule in Lojban is different from the stress rules in English.
For comparison, it reminds me a little of when I was learning to read Pinyin (a romanization of Mandarin Chinese). In Mandarin, words have tone, and the tone can change based on the words around it. So, in the beginning, we marked every tone as it was pronounced. As we got to know the language, we marked the tones as the words would be in isolation, because we internalized the tone change rules. We stopped marking what was already predictable from the rules of pronunciation.
Perhaps in a primer for Lojban, marking every word has value. (Although, in that case, I would prefer the look of the grave-accent method xorxes mentioned.) However, in normal Lojban, I don't see any value to marking what is already regular and 100% predictable.
mu'omi'e aleks