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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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