Re: [lojban] Writing the accent instead of the capital letter

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> I've been thinking about writing the stress with an accent instead of a
> capital letter.

I would be extremely in favor of this!

I have personally always found a little bit disturbing the use of
capital letters for marking the stressed syllable.
I suspect there is some historical reason for that (I guess US
typewriters had no accented letters at the time Lojban born :) ).

Nowadays I think we could make good use of accents. Just compare
{jòsefin} with {JOsefin} or {filìp} with {filIP}. Our language is
already ugly enough without having to mix lower and upper case.

I would not care for which accent to use. I would go for the grave
accent (àèìòù) because that's what Italian uses most but I don't feel
so strong about it. Up to the point I won't even be prescriptive on
this: any accent would do.

Hope you get enough people backing up your proposal.

Remo

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