
Conlangery #123: Stress Systems
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How to Find a Stress in a Word
Stress can be anywhere in the word. You start counting from one edge and you keep going until you find a heavy syllable. These are a little bit, yeah, these are weird. They're not as common. And it is a little weird. It's like, what do you do? If nothing's heavy. It's all sorts of stuff. The walls article describes them as especially interesting. I don't know. It took me way too long to internalize ancient Greeks stress system. So now I can just spew words correctly. But I can't imagine having to do the processing involved in finding the one heavy syllable in, like, say, a seven-syll
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