Re: [lojban] Re: Why capital letters standing in for letterals is a *bad* idea.

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 11:28 PM 4/30/04 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2004 20:00, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > There are fixed rules for breaking syllables between vowels, but AFAIK not
> > between consonants. Thus {tciuaua} is /tciu,AU,a/, but {baknrto} (some
> > animal mentioned in the food laws in Deuteronomy) could be /BA,knrto/
> > (which is what valfendi does internally), /BAK,nr,to/ (which is how I
> > pronounce it), /BA,kn,rto/, autc.
>
> A related question is when are two words, differing in stress and/or
> syllabication, the same. If you say /spat,r,xa,PI,o/ and I say
> /spa,TRXA,pio/, we are nessecelery talking about the same kind of plant. But
> if we both say /UA,cin,tyn/, I might be talking about the city on the Potomac
> and you about the state in the Northwest, while we could say /pa,RIS/ and
> /PA,ris/ and be talking about the same city, or different cities. Are {paRIS}
> and {PAris} the same word?

In Lojban, no.  However, "PA,ris" and "PAR,is" and "PAR,r,is" are the same 
word, even though the last has a different number of syllables.


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