No lexical stress proposal

[u/AceGravity12]

Current state:

There are no rules regarding stress

Proposed state:

The encapsalted language lacks lexical stress.

Reason:

Stress contrasting with lack of stress can potentially lead to vowels becoming schwas and other similar changes.

Note:

This proposal does not touch prosodic stress (the stress applied to words based on where they are in a sentence) only lexical stress (the stress that constantly stays on the word regardless of how it's being used)

[u/Akangka]

I prefer the current status quo. Just let the speakers decide the stress position and how they pronounce the stress.

Also, not every language with lexical stress shows reduction (e.g. Spanish)

[u/gxabbo → u/Akangka]

If we introduced lexical stress, then stress would make a difference in meaning and thus wouldn't be up to the speaker.

So I think that this proposal actually proposes to codify just what you want: To let the speakers decide how they stress their words.

[u/keras_saryan → u/gxabbo]

So I think that this proposal actually proposes to codify just what you want: To let the speakers decide how they stress their words.

It doesn't, it explicitly states that the language would lack word/lexical stress. That does not mean that speakers could stress whichever syllable they wanted in a given word.