[lojban] Re: eSpeak and lojban

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Stephen Pollei <stephen.pollei@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The reason I prefer { b } to { yb } over { by } is because it
> preserves it's cmevla status and doesn't change the word into a lerfu
> valsi .

I agree. I believe that handling these single letter cmene was the
reason I had a consonant coda allowed in front of a cmevla in the
preceding version of the peg morphology, before the zifcme idea. And
my idea too was that they could always be supported by a leading {.y}
(not only single letter cmevla, but any cmevla that begins with a
consonant cluster that can't be a syllable onset with the usual
rules).

> I'd prefer if it didn't stress cmevla  and leave that
> up to the writer, but I could be wrong about that. I request feedback.

In principle I share your preference, but I'd have to listen to some
examples to be sure.

> 2) dj and tc but not ts and dz has special support in jbo_rules, my
> earlier patch had dropped that not sure if that's an improvement or
> not. Someone who knows better should figure out of affricitives are at
> their best.

Consistency is probably the best idea, either affricate them all, or none.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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