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Re: [lojban] question about emphasis or something like it
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- Subject: Re: [lojban] question about emphasis or something like it
- From: Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:22:08 -0300
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> How would lojban differentiate between "I'm surprised that you said 'that'"
> (emphasis on 'that' as opposed to saying 'this') vs "I'm surprised that you
> said 'that'" (emphasis on 'said' as opposed to 'wrote' or 'thought')?
This is called "focus" in linguistics. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(linguistics)
In Lojban you can probably indicate focus with "ba'e", but you can
also do it with "kau" after a non-question word, see:
http://jbotcan.org/docs/cll/c11/s8.html
Also, any attitudinal will generally tend to put some focus on what it marks.
mu'o mi'e xorxes