>Historically (and still in TLI Loglan) it meant the vocative; TLI Loglan >has no equivalent of "doi". However, bare-name-as-vocative was >eliminated from the language in the 1986-87 time-frame; I don't know why. > Ambiguity: la noras. djan. na nelci lenu leri cmene cu binxo le remei .i ku'i la noras. doi djan. cu zanru dei lojbab