Re: [lojban] will you help me understand BAhE+BU?

[Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org>]

On Jan 13, 2011, at 15:29, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> Well, {ge'e} being exactly that was my point there; {ba'e} is *very*
> generic emphasis. As far as I can tell it's actually pretty
> un-Lojbanic; it seems to mean "I'd verbally empasize this if I was
> speaking English".
>
> je'u works; {.o'o cu'i} works, others.


(This is my first comment on this topic.)

I first saw the relevant meaning of emphasis as "This is the part of  
my utterance which is actually interesting, as opposed to being  
required for context and grammar." Which neither of your suggestions  
really conveys.

I now note that this is almost-but-not-quite {bi'u} or possibly {jo'a}.

If I were making arbitrary changes, I would keep ba'e as a word, but  
move all of BAhE (ba'e and za'e) into UI3a next to {bi'u}, thus  
simplifying the grammar. What you lose is the ability to emphasize  
(not important) or mark as nonce (possibly very important) a member of  
UI, since you can't modify a UI with a UI (right?).

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>

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