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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: question about emphasis or something like it
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On Saturday 23 January 2010 17:01:46 Judson Lester wrote:
> Wouldn't that also be conveyed by place structure?
>
> In other words, I assume you'd use some more correct form of:
>
> lo te tavla spaji mi
>
> or
>
> lo nu do tavla spaji mi
>
> drani xu

"cu" between "tavla" and "spaji", else the sentence is just two sumti, 
or "kei" in the second. Those mean "What (you) talked about surprised me" 
and "That you talked surprised me". "lo te tavla cu spaji mi" just says that 
what you talked about surprised me, irrespective of who talked about it.

Pierre

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