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on 5/23/02 1:37 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:59:45PM +1000, Ray Bergmann wrote: >> Ray:-> Is there still initial accent on words of more than one syllable or is >> it monotone now? In the word "besta" isn't there a problem with the accent >> being on the "be-" rather than on the "-sta"? Or should it be: "To dom ga be >> sta go." or "todomgabestago" with equal accent on all syllables? > > The neat thing is, the accent doesn't matter. All words begin at a full > consonant, so accent isn't necessary to separate words. Whatever happens > with accent is just a convention to make things easier to hear. Technically, that seems to be correct. In practice, tho, I think we shd avoid writing besta and write be sta again, because I'm going to have a tendency to stress the first syllable of what is written as one word, and it doesn't feel right to stress the 'be' here. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/