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--- In engelang@y..., "And Rosta" <a.rosta@l...> wrote: > Bfowol: > > > > What's a good way to handle names in a self-segmenting > > > > engelang that constitutes an optimal balance between (a) > > > > preserving self-segmentation, (b) distorting the original > > > > name as little as possible, and (c) concision. [clipped] > But the downsides [of bracketing] are (i) you're adding two > syllables to every name, and even though the end-bracket is > informative on first use in the discourse it ceases to be so, > and (ii) you need a fall-back plan for if any of the end-bracket > markers occur internally within the name. (Cf. the Lojban "no > /la/ in names" rule, which causes no end of trouble.) > > --And. Ok, how about using a single bracketing morpheme to introduce a 'foreign' string the -first- time it is used in discourse? Another option, depending on how the rest of the self-segmentation operates, might be to minimally deform the name to fit the primary segmentation criteria, eg if segmentation is signalled by high tone plus stress on the first syllable of a word, then stress would be shifted to accomodate, leaving the rest of the name as phonetically intact as possible? Bfowol