Re: Stress accent?

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Andrew Ferreir yscrifef:

> I'm willing to keep Brithenig's stress medieval if people are agreeable to
> it.  The Welsh stressed schwa is too much of a chimera that I want to
> tackle it!  I'll add it to the must-edit list.

Perhaps because I speak a rhotic dialect of English, I have trouble
with losing the final "-r" on verb infinitives if the stress still falls
on that syllable.  Likewise with final silent "-f"; how did it
become silent under stress?  Seems strange to me.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (FW 16.5)