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

[Álvaro Vallejo <avallejor@gmail.com>]

Me too!

I vote with both my hands in favor of this... Please let's get rid of
capital letters forever in Lojban!

Probably we are late for such suggestions (aren't the rules for Lojban
already frozen?), but this was my first thought when I met Lojban and
still it is!

I think acute accent is more common in computer keyboards than the
grave accent, but I could be wrong.

Also, the rule should be as simple as possible. I think a diphthongue
has always a stressed vowel and an (or two in case of triphthongues)
unaccented vowel(s). Then the stressed one would have the accent.

In the case of "sautuesrydyfytyn", the one who created the cmene would
probably know where it should be stressed. I mean: where do you (or
the "owner" of the cmene) stress the cmene when pronouncing it? there
you should place the accent.

mu'o mi'e la álbaros

The Spanish accentuation system is so complex and full or
irregularities that we shouldn't take it as a model.

On Jul 4, 4:17 am, Remo Dentato <rdent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Pierre Abbat <p...@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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