I mean stuff like sarcasm in English (when you can tell someone is sarcastic by their tone of voice), or emphasis on a particular word to change the meaning (“I never said *she* stole it” v. “I never said she *stole* it”).
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I don’t know about other languages but in Mandarin chinese they have suffixes that change the meaning. In English we raise the tone at the end of the question, but in Mandarin at the end of a question you say “ma”.
For example if you say 啊 (ah) at the end of your sentence you’re expressing surprise or excitement. If you add 吧 (ba) when telling someone to do something it makes it more polite and less like an order.
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