From pycyn@aol.com Sun Oct 28 18:23:12 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 29 Oct 2001 02:23:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 97723 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2001 02:23:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.224 with QMQP; 29 Oct 2001 02:23:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r06.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.102) by mta3 with SMTP; 29 Oct 2001 02:23:12 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.8.) id r.28.1ccf556d (3981) for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:23:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <28.1ccf556d.290e178a@aol.com> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:23:06 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] observatives (was RE: a construal of lo'e & le'e To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_28.1ccf556d.290e178a_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 11720 --part1_28.1ccf556d.290e178a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/28/2001 8:06:08 PM Central Standard Time, ragnarok@pobox.com writes: > blanu gerku is not urgent. It is informing us that there is a blue dog. > By using the observative you are in fact calling others attention to it, urging them to act appropriately -- in this case, probably look too. It is effectively very different from, say, {levi gerku cu blanu} or {ti blanu gerku} even. Sorry I misread the bracketting on this piece. --part1_28.1ccf556d.290e178a_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/28/2001 8:06:08 PM Central Standard Time, ragnarok@pobox.com writes:


blanu gerku is not urgent. It is informing us that there is a blue dog.
By using the observative you are in fact calling others attention to it, urging them to act appropriately -- in this case, probably look too.  It is effectively very different from, say, {levi gerku cu blanu} or {ti blanu gerku} even.

Sorry I misread the bracketting on this piece. --part1_28.1ccf556d.290e178a_boundary--