Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id CAA08548 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 02:18:12 +0200 Message-Id: <199512090018.CAA08548@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id ABF38218 ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 1:18:12 +0100 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 23:58:55 +0000 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: TECH: observative X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 472 Lines: 12 Lojbab to Xorxe: > >I don't see any special semantic content in the "observative" form. > That is your problem. It's been explained to you often enough. But I, and I imagine Jorge too, have supposed that this stuff about the so-called observative construction and its special meaning is just so much (of what you told me is called) bologna. An observative is a bridi with absent x1 - full stop. For absent x-other-than-1 we haven't bothered with special names. --- And