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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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