Re: [lojban] vowel and stress

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
>R> The
>R> various example suggest that for diphtongs it should be:
>R>
>R> {Ai} {Au} {Ei} {Oi} {iA} {ie} {iI} {iO} {iU} {uA} {uE} {uO} {uI} {uU}
>R>
>R> but I don't know if it's a rule.

P> As to which vowel of a diphthong, you are correct, and further {uY}, {iY}.
Oh! I thought that the schwa should never be stressed.

>R> I've also looked for words that had two consecutive vowel that were
>R> not a diphtong

P> There are brivla and cmevla that contain two consecutive vowels that aren't a
P> diphthong, e.g. bangrkorea (in the CLL), ma'aen (someone in Peace Child whose
P> name I lojbanized on the spot).

It should be pronounced {bangrkorèa} right? I just realized I don't
know any rule to split up consonant clusters!
I would go with {bangr,ko,re,a} but I'm not sure.

> Brivla are always stressed on the default syllable, but cmevla aren't.
Yes, I see that the explicit mark of accent is only needed for cmevla.

Talking about this, I would really like to see the use of capitalized
syllable go away as a mean to mark the stress. We do have accents for
this (any accent would work). I understand that back in time, US
keyboards didn't have accented characters but now there should be no
reason.
I always found awkward to say "lojban alphabet only uses roman lower
case letters" just to have to say few moments later that also the
capital letters are used. If they are :(

remod

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