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Date: Fri Dec  8 21:18:14 1995
From: ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>
Subject:      TECH: observative
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To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Status: OR
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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.

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