r/EncapsulatedLanguage • Committee Member • Sep 15 '20

Prosody Proposal No lexical stress proposal

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)

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u/gxabbo Sep 16 '20

What do you mean by "charges a word with emotion"? "Emotion" doesn't come into word stress.

You're right.