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lojban ills: implicit emphasis



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
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