Re: [lojban] Tangent the second: ASCII

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's one place in non-spaceless text where you need stress: names.

It depends what we understand by "need".

"mu'a" and "mu'á" are the same word. You "need" the stress mark if for
some reason you feel it's important to mark the valid non-standard
pronunciation of that word.

"cinri" and "ci,n,ri" are the same word. You "need" the comma if for
some reason you feel it's important to mark the valid non-standard
pronunciation of that word.

"marian" and "mari,án" are the same word. You "need" the stress mark
and the comma if for some reason you feel it's important to mark the
valid non-standard pronunciation of that word.

Many people feel that valid non-standard pronunciations of cmevla are
more worth marking than valid non-standard pronunciations of cmavo or
brivla, possibly because of respect for the "owner" of the name. But
then again, some names have brivla forms, so if someone liked to be
called "la ci,n,ri" we would "need" the commas there too. And names
can include cmavo, so if someone liked to be called "la mu'á zei
mu'á", we would "need" the stress mark for those cmavo too.

I would say stress marks are never strictly "needed". they are just a
provided convenience to indicate preferred pronunciations, just like
the comma.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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