Subject: Re: [lojban] cmavo for emphasis?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:12:41 EDT

In a message dated 9/22/2002 7:20:20 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email-masked] writes:

<<
> Are there particles for showing emphasis?
> 
> In English, we use a stronger voice to show emphasis in sentences 
> like:
> 
> "The *dog* bit the postman."
> 
> "The dog bit the *postman*."
> 
> "The dog *bit* the postman."
> 
> How does one indicate emphasis? By word order or what?
>>
Well, word order helps, but the exact analog of stess is {ba'e} before the 
word emphasized.