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

[And Rosta <arosta@uclan.ac.uk>]

Bob:
#   I don't see why you didn't go for a third option, that of having no
#   special rules (or "conventions") for bare predicates in main bridi.
#
#I don't know the history, but I like the observative.  It fits with
#the way I learn basic vocabulary.  Someone points to a creature and
#observes:  {mlatu}   I understand and eventually remember the
#connection between what I saw and the word.

I've no problem with that. If {mlatu} meant {zo'e1 mlatu (zo'e)}, it would be
obvious that zo'e would refer to the thing being pointed at. What I object to
is that covert but not overt zo'e in x1 of main bridi has a more restricted range of possible interpretations than overt zo'e and covert zo'e elsewhere.

--And.