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Hi again,

Consider the following sentences:

{mi'e klaus.} {mi'e pat.}

on the one hand and

{la pat. melbi .i la klaus. prami la pat.}

on the other.

On the one hand you have the names {klaus.}
and {pat.}. Then you have the people {la klaus.}
and {la pat.}. At least this is my understanding
of the presence of {la} in the second set of
example sentences.

Why can't Lojban just identify people with
their names (as all other languages seem to do)?
{la} seems to be an unnecessary complication. Why
can't we just say {pat. melbi .i klaus. prami pat.}?

Martin