Re: Metrical Stress, Feet, etc.

Merhaba!

Mark wrote:

"I have always considered syllables a phonetic thing, not a written one"

In some transliteration schemes, like the one for Vietnamese, all syllables are
written separately. I read somewhere that this is because in old times,
Vietnamese was written in the Chinese script, and so I guess the idea just
carried over into the new system.

--Trebor

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