From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Aug 20 11:16:17 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 20 Aug 2001 18:16:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 20224 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2001 18:10:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 20 Aug 2001 18:10:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 20 Aug 2001 18:10:19 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA25395; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:11:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B81524D.3050808@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:09:17 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Peters Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Brochure updates References: <20010820161935.A17261@uazu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Jim Peters wrote: > - Right at the start, the pronounciation of so'eroi is written > "soh-heh-ROI", but shouldn't it be "soh-HEH-roi" according to the > rules ? There actually are no rules for stress in compound cmavo. > - I have some trouble with the idea of syllabic constanants as > described. Why can't Carl, Miriam, Ellen and Burt be written {kal} > {miriam} {elen} and {byt} ? Is this my UK English showing ? Yes. > I'm > also using Spanish pronunciation for `r' (as permitted according to > some other document) as I can't honestly see how to combine an > English `r' with the pure Spanish-style vowel-sounds. So {brt} > sounds like "burut". Well, if Serbians, Croats, and Bosnians can cope, why can't you? :-) > If they're only needed for names, no big deal > if I say them wrong, probably. Is it just me that's confused ? Unfortunately, syllabic consonants appear in fu'ivla too. > - At the end of the phonology section, where it talks about stressing > the penultimate syllable, I think it would be worth mentioning here > that apostrophe counts as a syllable boundary, so {blari'o} is three > syllables. I was confused about this for some time until I found a > mention in the reference grammar. Good point. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel