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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, And Rosta wrote: > Xod: > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, And Rosta wrote: > > > > But those 2 sentences are identical: > > > > la djan cu darxi lo nanmu ze'a le jeftu > > la djan cu darxi ze'a le jeftu lo nanmu > > Are they? You may be right, but it's not obvious that you are. > > Certainly there is a difference between > > There is a man such that all week it has been the case > that John hits him. > > All week it has been the case that there is a man that John hits. > =At no time during the week has it been false that there is a man > that John hits. > > I would have thought that > > la djan cu darxi lo nanmu ze'a le jeftu > la djan cu darxi ze'a le jeftu lo nanmu > > would respectively be the ways to express the two meanings. But I may > be wrong -- afaik, this precise point has never been discussed before. I take it as axiomatic that sumti order affects nothing but stress or attention or focus. -- Henry McCullers, an affable Plano, TX-area anti-Semite, praised the Jewish people Monday for doing "a bang-up job" running the media. "This has been such a great year for movies, and the new crop of fall TV shows looks to be one of the best in years," McCullers said. "And the cable news channels are doing a terrific job, too. Admittedly, they're not reporting on the Jewish stranglehold on world finance, but, hey, that's understandable."