Re: [lojban] fu'ivla tarmi

[Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Richard Curnow wrote:
>I was thinking about this word breaking issue again today, particularly
>after the "iglu zbasu" example cited a couple of weeks ago.  What
>worries me is lujvo of the form CVVCCV followed by a gismu.  For (a
>contrived) example, the words "ci'ebra zbasu" would be stressed thus if
>spoken
>
>  ci'Ebra zbAsu
>     ^      ^
>     +------+---- stress
>
>but consider how "ci'e brazbasu" could be spoken (given that cmavo can
>be arbitrarily stressed)
>
>  ci'E brazbAsu
>     ^      ^
>     +------+---- stress
>
>i.e. the same!  I'm not sure how these two cases can be distinguished in
>the spoken language.  What am I missing?

If a cmavo is stressed on the last syllable (which I tend to do with CVCVV
cmavo, e.g. makau), it should be followed by a pause to prevent such confusion.

phma