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[lojban] Question about ki'ai



Can ki'ai be used to make a nonce evidential/discursive?

I wanted to do something like "suddenly, someone yelled".

So, I wanted a discursive for "suddenly" (I think this would be a situation for a discursive of some kind anyway).

So for this could I do something like {ki'ai .ky suksa .ky da krixa}?
And if this could be confused for the attitude of the speaker instead of indicating the mode of the bridi, could a new cmavo be coined.  Maybe something like:
ki'ei: convert the following brivla (or maybe it would be best to make the following word a cmevla/zoi quoted word?) into a nonce discursive/evidential.

We have cmavo for converting just about everything into anything else.  It seems odd to not have a way to convert stuff to discursive/evidential (which I'm discovering are really handy word classes)

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