[lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography. Yes, another one.

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Gregory Dyke wrote:

> Robin wrote:
>
> > Martin Norbäck wrote:
> >
> >> fre 2003-05-16 klockan 10.28 skrev robin:
> >>
> >>> OK, let's kill this thread before the Lojban lists turns into the
> >>> Great Window Manager Debate.  And don't anyone dare start talking
> >>> about vi and emacs!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> First, let me say that vim is the best editor.
> >>
> >> I'm beginning to wonder why there should be a way to indicate stress at
> >> all.
> >>
> >> The only place where you currently can choose stress is cmene. Why
> >> should you be able to do that? It's clear where a cmene ends anyway (it
> >> ends with a consonant and a pause).
> >>
> >> In cmavo, you may stress however you like but the cmavo are still the
> >> same words. In brivla you must have penultimate stress. Why not just
> >> make it acceptable to stress a cmene in whatever way you like?
> >
> >
> > Because people get touchy about their names. pi,ER. probably doesn't
> > want to have people calling him pi,er.
> >
> > robin.tr
> >
> I don't expect my friend Lara  would enjoy being called any of the
> lojbanized name forms one could think up. Why be picky about stress?



It makes more of an impact on longer names. In the US we say the name of
the old pharaoh as tutankhAmen. When a friend of mine pronounced it
tutAnkhamen he had to resort to a description before I understood.



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