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Re: [lojban] Dumb answers to good questions
At 01:59 PM 9/20/01 +0100, And Rosta wrote:
So the general Lojban strategy I'd propose would be twofold
(a) a method of isolating the focused item along the lines sketched
above,
We have a prenex approach to this where it is a sumti you want to draw
focus to, as well as fronting and trailing markedly, which brings focus by
the marking.
ba'e of course directly adds emphasis, but does not indicate why, which
draws focus.
(b) an optional UI to mark the focused item -- the equivalent
of English intonation's focal stress ("Bob HIT Bill", etc.).
The closest we have to this beside ba'e is bi'u/bi'unai which were
originally intended by Colin Fine who proposed them to deal with one
particular reason for focus. I suspect that if we wanted to add more
capability in this area it would be to add words intended to convey other
specific reasons for focus. These are good candidates for experimental
cmavo because the added cmavo will inherently draw focus even if it isn't
known (and if known will indicate why the focus is drawn)
lojbab
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