Re: Poesy (WAS Re: Online learning)

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

>It's always a problem finding a comprise between metricality
>and grammaticality.  Apart from the last line, it should all fit rou=
>ghly
>into tetrameter or trimeter (second verse), but sometimes you have to "sc=
>runch"
>some of the cmavo.  Fine in English, but I'm not sure if Lojban is
>supposed to be syllable-timed or stress-timed.  If the atter is the
>case, this obviously wouldn't work.

There has been no ruling made on stress vs. syllable timing.  I am sure that
most English native speakers pronounce Lojban stress-timed to match their
native speech pattern.  I would like to hear how Lojban sounds spoken with a
proper syllble timing - but am not sure which I would favor.  Syllable-timing
has an atraction of "exoticness", but I am not sure that is a trait we should
value or shun in promoting Lojban.  Besides, to much ot he world, there is
nothing exotic about syllable timing.  But I can't pretned to know enough to
make a dispassionate judegment.

lojbab