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[lojban] Re: Question to native English speakers
I suspect thst I would put an article in front: "an another world map" or "the ...." This form
sounds very forced to me (now).
--- Joel Shellman <jshellman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, that's clear for normal adjectives. But can you give a sentence with
> > "another world map" that would make sense with that intonation?
>
> Someone showing successively three different maps--first two of Earth,
> third of some other planet.
>
> "Look at this world map. And here's another world map. Ah, but here's
> ANOTHER WORLD map."
>
> This is contrived, but perhaps the most likely situation where this
> might happen (which I think we're all in agreement is highly
> unlikely). The speaker in this situation is deliberately playing on
> the words. He had just said another world map to mean something hum
> drum, now by putting different emphasis on the same phrase, he creates
> contrast and emphasis that the third map is something special.
>
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