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

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/30/2001 8:51:15 AM Central Standard Time, arosta@uclan.ac.uk writes:

#If you want to indicate that some sentence besides a bare bridi is an
#observative, use {za'a}.

I agree. I hope that usage does what you say it does, because it means that the observative convention is sufficiently feeble for it to be readily ignorable.

Unfortunately (for you), it does not.  {za'a} is an evidential, so does not say that I am observing the situation referred to right now, only that I know of it from observation some time.