LL-L "Orthography" 2004.10.31 (09) [E]

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From: Henry Pijffers <henry.pijffers at saxnot.com>
Subject: LL-L "Holidays" 2004.10.30 (05) [E]

>> >     hartbuk-kryger roort,
>> >     winter-drüppels valt,
>> >
>> Why did you choose to use hyphens here?
>
> For the sake of clarifying primary stress assignment.
>
You mean to say the stress is mainly on the first part of the composite
word? Is that really necessary to indicate? It's not part of your ANS I
hope, is it?

Henry

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Orthography

Henry:

> You mean to say the stress is mainly on the first part of the composite
> word?

Yes, hence ... (stress: ´=primary, `=secondary)

Typical Germanic stress: primary before secondary

hártbùk + kr´ygèr > hártbuk-kr`yger
wíntèr + dr´üppèls > wínter-dr`üppels

The hyphen does two important things:

(1) clarifies stress assignment (important especially to learners)
(2) breaks up long words (and avoids scaring English speakers and others)

> Is that really necessary to indicate? It's not part of your ANS I
> hope, is it?

It isn't mandatory but recommended.  It should be used at least in auxiliary
in otation in language teaching texts so as to aid the learner in stress
assignment.

A hyphen must be used in "splittable" verbs; e.g.,

uut-gaan (úút-gà à n) _Wy gaat uut_
an-kamen (án-kà men) _Wy kaamt an_

and:
över-setten (´över-sètten) 'to take across (e.g., by ferry) ["splittable"]
vs
översetten (`översétten) 'to translate' [not "splittable"]

Lack of orthographic indications for stress assignment can be a big problem
for non-native learners and sometimes for native speakers as well.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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