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A rhetorical device used in Fith is to mention subjects that are then left to linger on the stack before being used. This can serve as introduction or indirection. The whole time a Fithian is talking these unused words (typically nouns) are in the back of the listener's mind, as it were, coloring all that is said after. A short example (examples of this can be much longer):
"As we all love the pouch that bore us, we all love the clan who raised us. As we all love the clan who raised us, so must we love this nation that sacrificed for us." - Tsho Ming Sun Do.
There is not room in this language overview to present the whole translation here, other then to say that it begins with the words "nation clan pouch". Thanks to the stack-based grammar, the word "nation" zhong can be introduced first, even though it is not used until four clauses later! (Obviously politicians find this device to be a great way to seem to answer an opponent.)
One popular parody of Tsho Ming Sun Do's famous statement (popular among the enemies of the Tsho nation anyway) begins with the words Lu lu lu lu... "Us us us us...". (The parody is perfectly grammatical, if impossible for humans to understand in real time.)
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