[lojban] Re: pronunciation with cmavo and brivla

[Chris Capel <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:03:33 -0500, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.hn.org> wrote:
> On Monday 10 January 2005 23:06, Chris Capel wrote:
> > The reference grammar, chapter 4, section 2, example 2.8, says that to
> > pronounce "le RE NANmu", you need to say "le RE. NANmu". The pause is
> > required, it says, because otherwise it could confuse someone about
> > NAN being the first syllable of nanmu. But isn't this ambiguity taken
> > care of by nanmu's CVC/CV form? Why is the pause necessary in
> > addition?
> 
> It isn't for two-syllable brivla. It is necessary for a lot of three-syllable
> or longer brivla, such as {jbojbena} and {krataigo}.

(Seems that jbojbena isn't in jbovlaste.)

Aren't brivla always pronounced on the penultimate syllable, thus
making a pause in those cases with brivla longer than two syllables
flow much more naturally with speech than "le RE. NANmu"? (You try
saying it with a glottal stop, as you would want to in normal
speech--it sounds terrible.) It would seem that if it were meant to
apply only to three-syllable brivla, the example was very poorly
chosen.

Chris Capel
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