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The Importance of Highlighting Competitors
Tai ziang jiu e siei dang cao, do chu wan lak. He's eaten all the cake. Tai yiang is a construction of the sentence where when you want to stress certain part or certain element of the information and to sort of move that information up front so that the other speaker will know what you are trying to emphasize here. Another example would be wu man xiang ting dong tui shou, dabai lah. And so we have defeated all the contenders or our contenders. In English, in direct translation, it will be he, ziang, this cake, all eaten out.
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