[lojban] Re: jordis

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:41:44AM +0100, Martin Bays wrote:
> * Wednesday, 2004-10-20 at 15:18 -0700 - jordi mas <jordimastrullenque@yahoo.com>:
> 
> > > > But anyway --- are you sure that displacing sumti towards the front to
> > > > show emphasis is not malrarbau?
> > > Well it's certainly an informal and inexact way of doing it, whether or
> > > not it works for not-just-natlang reasons - which makes it arguably
> > > unlojbanic. I think CLL mentions that it is generally understood this way,
> > > but what difference that makes I'm not sure.
> > Somehow I feel it to be unlojbanic, but don't
> > ask me why.
> 
> Well we should probably leave it to the proper lojbanists to tell us what is
> and isn't lojbanic. Opinions, proper lojbanists?

I *absolutely* move the thing that I am thinking about most
primarily to the front of the sentence.

Sometimes I also move things to the front to match English, but I'm
trying to stop doing that.

-Robin

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