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[lojban] Re: Question to native English speakers



On 9/25/07, John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> --- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > For normal adjectives, yes. For "another", unless used as a name,
> > what context could give the "(another noun) noun" reading?
>
> Not context so much as intonation and juncture: longer pause before "map" than between "another"
> and "world," stress and higher pitch on "another" but level to "world" and falling on "map"
> (approximately, in my idiolect).

Yes, that's clear for normal adjectives. But can you give a sentence with
"another world map" that would make sense with that intonation?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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