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Re: TECH: PROPOSED CHANGE 37: Relative Clauses before names



John:
> > A separate question: Why cannot {.karl.} be used as an independent sumti?
> > It is not morphologically ambiguous. How come there must be a preceding
> > LA or DOI?
> 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.

It would be nice to have CMENE behave in general like KOhA, except in the
context of LA, DOI, COI.

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