Re: Questions

["Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU>]

>Date:         Tue, 9 May 1995 09:10:03 -0600
>From: Chris Bogart <cbogart%CSN.ORG@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>

>>> .i fe'omi'e dilyn. trsTON.

>>You don't need to capitalize TON, because the o is the only vowel and
>>so it already has the stress anyway.

>Good point, but I'm glad he did it anyway.  I probably would have
(wrongly)
>pronounced it as TRSton. if it had been spelled without capitals.

Is it really so?  The "r" is used vocalically here, and is unambiguously
so, since "trs" is not a valid consonant cluster.  Therefore the "r" must
be syllabic, and as such, according to the rule of da'amoi terbansa, it
would be TRSton. if not otherwise marked.

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