Re: [glosalist] plu, stress

 So, Glosa can also be used as a "tourist" tongue, but it might take a    little more effort than simply using polite, phrase-book    communication.  All this is to say that Glosa is a language designed for    basic communication: it avoids the use of metaphor, and does not work with    national language idiom.  The hardest part of learning to use Glosa is    putting the mind into 'low gear' to think in basic concepts, and    accordingly use the appropriate word, rather than an approximate close fit.

 But I also like music, and think singing is great.

 Mi amo kanta.      -     I like [to sing/singing]
     .....   u kanta.   -       ....  [the song/the singing]   NB 'U'    acts as a Noun marker, or the 'flag' to indicate a Noun Phrase.

     .....   plu kanta.  -     .... the songs   ( definitely in the    region of plurality, here )

 Mi amo u kanta-pe.  -   I like the singer.   (music appreciation, or    preference for the person)

  ......     plu kanta-pe.  -  I like [the (particular) singers/ singers    (in general)]  ... <plural>

 Mi hedo audi kanta-pe.  -   I enjoy [to hear/hearing/listening to]    singers   ... <' plu ' elided>
                                    --- This is a general statement, and    implies all singers.
 Mi hedo audi plu kanta-pe.   -   I enjoy [hearing/listening to] (the)    singers   ... softer, and unambiguous

 Mi amo u kanta-ra.  -  I like the [song-thing/song]
   ......    kanta-ra.   -    I like (the) song       < a bit bare:    ?general or particular?>

  Mi hedo kanta ko u kanta-grega.   -    I enjoy singing with the    choir.    Common sense tells us that the one would be singing with a group    of other people.   The rule is: use as many words as are needed for    communication to be unambiguous.

 While I have been criticised for repeating Ron Clark's phrase "concept    words" to describe Glosa's lexical items, it still makes sense to me.
 Folksy national languages and folksy auxiliary languages, like    Esperanto, have a warm human feel about them, and have comfy usage.  Glosa,    on the other hand, can be seen as a bit 'skeletal': the bones of language    are showing through.

- - - - - - -   Stress.
  Each Glosa word (and most are fairly short) has stress on the final    syllable.
  Glosa does not have inflections that change the word - or a series of    affixes that lengthen the word, and extend the meaning: it has particles    which can be words in their own right, but which can be attached by hyphen    to substantive words to change the category of meaning.

  Each word is pronounced with its own stressed final syllable.  [Hyphens    are not sounded, as such, but their presence is heard - in the stress given    to each element of a compound word.]
  An es u kanta-pe.   -  He is a singer.     Pron. kanta-pe  =  kAHntAH pAY

  eg.  pani-bo-pe    -   bread shop person  OR baker   Pron.    pani-bo-pe  =  pAHnEE bOR pAY

 While speakers of English become used to the normal shortcuts in the    language, and like its idiomatic and metaphorical usages, Glosa does not    work this way.
  There is a reasonably precise way of using Glosa, and, while compound    terms can be created using added particles - to give added meaning, there    is also the possibility of developing eliptic forms by dropping out words    that would be used for precision, but whose absence, in pedestrian    language, would cause no ambiguity.
  eg.  Fe ki a fe domi.   -  She goes to her home.
         Fe ki domi.    -   She goes (to) home.      NB.  'KI' is not    transitive
                                       'to go' a home is a nonsense.
         But, in English, this elided form is used all the time, and it    can be used in Glosa, also - where precision is not necessary.
         It is my feeling that when learning Glosa, it is best to use the    precise form of a sentence, and good syntax should be used.    Because the    thing that holds Glosa together is its syntax (word order), then correct    syntax is required, and the use of punctuation to indicate the phrasal and    clausal structure is a part of that syntax.  This situation is described    most easily by saying that Glosa has Syntax-based Grammar.

  Welcome to the weird world of language.

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