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Re: Korahamla lives!

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, November 14, 2002, 9:10
En réponse à Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> Christophe Grandsire wrote: > > Vocabulary remark: "topic" typically refers only to new information. > What you > > call "topic ... for old information" should rather be called > "focus". > > You've got it backwards. Topic is old information, focus is new > information. >
You're right. Brain fart again :(( . Anyway, what I said was basically right, you just have to swap the references to "topic" and "focus" :((( . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.