[lojban] Re: pronunciation with cmavo and brivla

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Chris Capel wrote:
> 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.

Maybe something like {RE. SPAti} would have been a better example.
It is not clear whether {RESPAti} should break as {re spati}
or as {respa ti}, as in both cases the brivla has a stressed 
penultimate syllable.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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