From cowan@ccil.org Tue Dec 12 18:55:46 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@locke.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_3); 13 Dec 2000 02:55:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 17897 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2000 02:55:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Dec 2000 02:55:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta2 with SMTP; 13 Dec 2000 02:55:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA06110; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:19:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:19:05 -0500 (EST) To: Richard Curnow Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] fu'ivla tarmi In-Reply-To: <20001212231313.D108@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Richard Curnow wrote: > What > worries me is lujvo of the form CVVCCV followed by a gismu. For (a > contrived) example, the words "ci'ebra zbasu" would be stressed thus if > spoken > > ci'Ebra zbAsu > ^ ^ > +------+---- stress > > but consider how "ci'e brazbasu" could be spoken (given that cmavo can > be arbitrarily stressed) Almost. A cmavo with final stress *must* be followed by pause, for just this reason. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter