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1. | Reply RIchard
   Posted 09 Dec 2003 at 8:49am #
   

   It'd be nifty, too, if we could encode these sort of things via grammatical structures rather than having to rely on emphasis (mainly for written works).

   Although I guess bolding it works as well. 😀

2. | Reply andy
   Posted 09 Dec 2003 at 10:18am #
   

   there's one technique, it's called "context"

3. | Reply Nick
   Posted 09 Dec 2003 at 10:34am #
   

   Interestingly enough, ancient Greek did encode this sort of thing explicitly. "γαρ" was used after a word to indicate a stress on that word. Tonal stresses of the sort we use in English wouldn't have worked so well, since tonal stresses were used for grammatical purposes (as I understand it).

4. | Reply David
   Posted 09 Dec 2003 at 6:43pm #
   

   Yet another reason why I chose to study Linguistics. It's just so fascinating, isn't it?

   The main reason was to see if I could learn enough about language in general to develop programs and robots that could manipulate it ala C3PO. Unfortunately, I learned that the undertaking would be extremely difficult and not something I could do in the two or three years I had left in college.

5. | Reply Jo-Pete Nelson
   Posted 09 Dec 2003 at 10:01pm #
   

   Nice...