[lojban] lojban ills: implicit emphasis

[xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>]

while studying lojban, i find it less and less of my rather ignorant 
original expectations. (however, i still find studying it greatly 
fruitful and has useful applications)

anyway, here's one snippet of reasons that just came to me, and i 
thought i'd just throw it out to the open.

For example, one can use different ordering to say the same thing but 
with different emphasis, e.g.

do vecnu ta mi

ta se vecnu do mi

means the same thing but with different emphasis.

Now, lojban claims to be isomorphic this or that or logic and explicit 
semantic this or that, but here there is a implicit meaning attached to 
emphasis. As a manner of speaking, we may ask, why didn't lojban 
provide some mechanism to indicate emphasis, instead of using the 
rather implicit and undefined emphasis attached to ordering?

  Xah
  xah@xahlee.org
  http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html



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