Re: The last enemy

Quoting Sanghyeon Seo <sanxiyn@...>:

> 2007/7/26, Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...>:
> > taliesin the storyteller wrote many things, including the following:
> > > (Affixes usually don't change the placement
> > > of stress/length).
> > >
> > Maybe not, but it's not so unusual to have that happen.  Consider:
> >   - stable > stabilize
> >   - stable > stability
>
> I think English is an exception in this case.
Maybe, but the rule excepted from seems more like a guideline to me. For a
start, there's an awful lot of languages where stress is determined by
syllable-count from the end of the word.

 Andreas