"You put the emPHASIS on the wrong sylLABLE!"
Emphasis means a lot when speaking. Emphasis conveys a whole range of expression and emotion, similar to the way italics can convey urgency or a bold text can express something being stressed.
When speaking in English, we can convey urgency or stress something by the tone of our voice. This is a familiar concept to us all. However, because Thai is a tonal language we don’t really have the luxury of using tone to express different feelings.
But there is hope! In Thai, there are a few ways that you can emphasize or de-emphasize what you’re trying to say by using a grammatical concept simple enough in design — doubling your adjectives and adverbs by a process called “reduplication.”
