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A LIFO stack can be thought of as a deck of cards. In Fith, every card is a different word or set of words. Some words - like nouns - typically just get added to the stack. For instance, the utterance zhong hong would place the first word, zhong ("nation"), onto the stack:
The next word, hong ("man"), is placed on top of it.
All the syntactical rules of Fith involve the use of the stack. For instance, an adjective modifies the noun or phrase on top of the stack. So the adjective lin, "loyal", would take hong from the mental stack of the listener and would replace it with the phrase hong lin ("loyal man"). Phrases take just one space on the stack. So the final result of the stack for the phrase zhong hong lin would be:
The phrase zhong hong lin lo would leave the stack as follows:
This means "loyal man of the nation".
See the section on stack conjunctions below to see how Fithians manipulate the stack for emphasis.
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