Annotations (d-)
Annotations are additional grammar that don’t modify the logical meaning of the text, and simply add notes or metadata. These annotations are also called “free” prefixes and suffixes as they can be added freely before and after many elements of the grammar.
Free prefixes DI
DI contains all particles starting with di- and are prefixes to other elements of the grammar. They currently contains particles related to “focus”:
- di: Attention focus: the listener should be extra attentive to the following word. Maybe it would be especially prone to confusion?
- die: Contrastive focus: It’s that thing and not something else that was expected.
- dia: Newsworthiness focus: Marks the part of the sentence containing the most important new information.
Free interjection DE (suffix)
DE contains all particles starting with de- and is a suffix to other elements of the grammar. It is followed by a single predicate which can be prefixed by SI/ZI. However it doesn’t support chains of predicates, unless they are wrapped in pe … pei.
de uses this predicate as an interjection. Using a borrowing can be used
to make onomatopoeia, like de uahaha for laughter. Using a predicate word
could be compared to emojis or lojban’s attitudinals, like de gali (love/❤️).
dei uses this predicate as a metadata tag or #hashtag.
Free parenthetical DA…DAI (suffix)
The families DA and DAI have single members da and dai respectively. DA allows starting a parenthetical note which is ended by DAI. This note can be any valid eberban text.