JACKPOT

[fox]

So some words are more stress-attracting than others, is it?  And some of these words that attract stress no matter which side of the compound they're on, they can get trumped by 'stronger' words in some cases and show up without stress?

I've just found, in the same list, business investment and investment business.  Where I come from, we call that a minimal pair.  Thank you for playing:  there is no spectrum of stress-gravity (or, as I chose to call it in the revised version of the sentence, 'likelihood to attract stress').  YAY, I can move on to the next section now.

Comments

[knitmeapony.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha yes to reading, no to writing; I'm in the middle of a 10000 word-er on the substantial justice of the affordability of arbitration in labor, housing and credit. Trade you!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

I have a paragraph here -- and it's not the only one, just the one I'm hung up on at the moment -- that's going to be two pages long, once I go to double-space. That drives me crazy. And yet I don't think there's anything for it.

[knitmeapony.livejournal.com]

Oh see, for me, that'd be a triumph, hehe. My dearest hope is that someone eventually compares me to Faulkner.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Hemingway. Hemingway. Hemingway.

[knitmeapony.livejournal.com]

*snicker*