Subject: metre

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 01:37:49 +0100

Three questions on metre.

1.
In English metre, in certain environments it is normal for 
stressed syllables to be metrically weak and for unstressed 
syllables to be metrically strong. To what extent is this
forbidden for Lojban (assuming we want verse Lojban to
self-segment properly)?

2.
Given that all Lojban speakers can (I posit) speak with an
accent in which the buffer vowel is never elided, while
not all Lojban speakers can speak with an accent in which
the buffer vowel is always elided, would you agree that
metrical Lojban verse that aspires to be recitable by all
speakers should treat all buffer vowels as unelided?

3.
Do you think that the native metres of Lojbanistan are made
up of regular patterns of strong and weak syllables?

--And.