BPFK Section: Hesitation
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 05:49:23PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Thursday 04 November 2004 18:26, wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:
> > Re: BPFK Section: Hesitation OK, so what do we do about ".y."?
> >
> > I'm of the opinion (caused by xorxes' arguments) that it should
> > be as extragramattical (sp?) as it can possibly be. It is
> > ridiculous to assert that someone who says "zo .y. pavyseljirna"
> > is actually saying "zo .y. cu pavyseljirna".
>
> If I say {zo .y. cmavo}, however long I hold out the {y}, I mean
> {zo cmavo}, but if I say {zo .Y. cmavo}, I mean that {y} is a
> cmavo, and don't hold it out.
You can't *possibly* be suggesting that a vocally stressed {y}
should be considered a real word, but a non-stressed {y} be
considered white space, can you?
I half-veto in advance, in case you are.
-Robin
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