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BPFK Section: Hesitation

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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 04:43:44PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 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?

Furthermore, how the hell do you even stress schwa? I mean, isn't
that just a *grunt* at that point?

-Robin