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Re: [lojban] observatives (was RE: a construal of lo'e & le'e



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.