Kropp-Dakubu's 1980 West African language data sheets vol II contains a few pages on Nafaanra put together in the late seventies by Dean and Carol Jordan, including a phonology, a list of nouns, a list of pronouns, a list of numbers, and some example sentences; tones are not marked.
Sentences establish tone, and set the pace.
People writing a great speech are careful to mix up the length of their sentences, the tone of their voice and the volume of their words.
Some cooperation with the estate might have ensured this sentence was toned down, or altered in some way, but that is the road not taken.
Reflecting a combination of diction, sentence patterns and tone, voice is the quality that helps a writer connect with a reader, and it turns the writer into a narrator.
Alas, the second part of this sentence imports the tone of diminishment that we find in Forster and Pritchett.
This sort of sentence sets the tone: "The house seemed suddenly imbued with meaning, redolent of their past and precious to them".
The famous opening sentence sets the tone for the entertaining romp that follows, as Aunt Dot, her niece Laurie, and Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg journey from Istanbul to Trebizond on Turkey's Black Sea coast.
The grisly opening sentence sets the tone: "A medical internship consists of more than spectating at complicated bowel operations, cutting open stomach linings, bracketing off lungs and sawing off feet; and it doesn't just consist of thumbing closed the eyes of the dead and hauling babies out into the world either".
