[lojban] Re: lojban ills: implicit emphasis

[Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:01:54 -0800 (PST), John E Clifford
<clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> C is Lojban's (never used) {setese}.

I've used it...

...though I was told off lightly for doing so.

The situation where I felt I "needed" it was expressing a long
quotation with {cusku} where I wanted x3 (the audience) first, since
it was short, and didn't want it to get "buried" somewhere after the
long quotation: {mi setese cusku le patfu be mi lu ... li'u}.

I agree with the person who told me off that in general, sequences of
SE can be confusing, but I felt that {setese} for swapping x2 and x3
was a special case that might occur frequently enough to warrant
learning it as an idiom.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>