Re: THEORY: YAEPT: stress placement (Was: Re: THEORY: Xpositions in Ypositional languages {X,Y}={pre,post})

Most of the time I pronounce it this way too.

Based on this statistically objectionable sample size, then, analogy
seems to be the dominant force in judging probable pronunciations of
unfamiliar words. I wonder if anyone follows the source language's
stress patterns in such cases? Not just Latin, but more interestingly
Greek, and other languages which have a radically different stress
pattern that is counter-intuitive to English-speakers
("eleemosynary"); even hybrid compounds like "automobile", whose
ultimate stress has always eluded me as to why -- IIRC the Latin was
'mo:bilis.

Eugene

2007/9/29, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>:
> Definitely meso'clitic.   Analytic, anti-Semitic, electrolytic...
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> Arguing the other way we have . . . uhm . . .  im'politic . . . anything else?
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> On 9/29/07, Douglas Koller <laokou@...> wrote:
> > From: Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
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> > > where do you put the stress?
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> > > 1. me'soclitic (latinate stress)
> > > 2. ,meso'clitic (analytic stress)
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> > 2
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> > Kou
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> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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