From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 26 19:29:58 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:29:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Iaj8Y-0002Mc-CO for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:29:58 -0700 Received: from web81314.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.199.40]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Iaj8V-0002MV-QA for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:29:58 -0700 Received: (qmail 59677 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Sep 2007 02:29:49 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=yf94h+XA6YCl54s2ADGndmnKsBUEjOf+Q+Y0Q7t0xLGW6BQ7H1iMraZ+oEvKadeT+UWkIWniwUTQ1qivzyIqWVTgIdhzJu00r5YfsM3l51FX8H4xtbDzWtyHJKtpjrlrb/FJMAHJIpEHU9HC8Wo2CqfDV9o9mD96S1aQJvqZszo=; X-YMail-OSG: n8PXLPsVM1m0JqqNfDDlvF1zsrSWXv65yPo_fRohfER2qGgE2CwMIJoI73AJs3pq7NYaYCvsWWNrplEegG9Ht4pTTXuNuXJQ0tsVFUnEYzyrnWdngW0- Received: from [71.8.203.133] by web81314.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:29:49 PDT Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:29:49 -0700 (PDT) From: John E Clifford Subject: [lojban] Re: Question to native English speakers To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <975a94850709250926y2ac2a309if5853faeb6779b98@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <342829.59370.qm@web81314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: 2 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 13861 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: clifford-j@sbcglobal.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list I suspect thst I would put an article in front: "an another world map" or "the ...." This form sounds very forced to me (now). --- Joel Shellman wrote: > > Yes, that's clear for normal adjectives. But can you give a sentence with > > "another world map" that would make sense with that intonation? > > Someone showing successively three different maps--first two of Earth, > third of some other planet. > > "Look at this world map. And here's another world map. Ah, but here's > ANOTHER WORLD map." > > This is contrived, but perhaps the most likely situation where this > might happen (which I think we're all in agreement is highly > unlikely). The speaker in this situation is deliberately playing on > the words. He had just said another world map to mean something hum > drum, now by putting different emphasis on the same phrase, he creates > contrast and emphasis that the third map is something special. > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org > with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if > you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help. > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.