Re: [lojban] Re: question about emphasis or something like it

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the responses.  I guess it would make sense that I was unsure how to do this.  I never really understood {kau} intuitively.

2010/1/21 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

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


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