Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> > >How have other people handled stress/accent?
> > >YHL
>
> Heh.  I'm rather embarrased to admit it, but I have no idea how stress
> works in Yivríndil.  I have stressed words more or less the same way from
> the beginning, but I do them instinctively, and I have never been able to
> figure out how I am assigning the stress.  I was able to right down a few
> general rules a while ago when I tried to codify it, but there were always
> numerous exceptions and idiosyncracies.  To make matters worse, the stress
> isn't entirely consistent--some words have more than one acceptable
> stress, and the actual stress will vary according to the other words
> around it.
Hey, what works, works.  I've tried codifying my own "instinctive"
stress-patterns of made-up words and I still haven't found any, well,
pattern.

> So I guess I should just say that Yivríndil stress is semi-regular, but
> ultimately unpredictable.  Unfortunately, Yivríndil dictionaries don't
> mark stress, making this a real bugger for foreigners trying to learn the
> langauge ;-).
I wonder if the foreigners band together to create their own Yivríndil
dictionaries, passed among each other in secret bootleg swaps....

YHL