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Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 12:03:03 +0300
From: Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>
Subject: Re: pamoi notci
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Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:

> From: "Arnt Richard Johansen" <enkefalos@hotmail.com>
>
> > > coi mi'e tsali
>
> >Is it grammatical to use a gismu as a name?
> ><br>Wouldn't making a cmene {la tsal.} be preferable?
>
> It's perfectly legal to use any brivla as a name.  There is an example
> in the Grammar, where a person named "Frank" is referred to as
> "la stace".

Sure is.  The custom of converting gismu to cmene by losing the last vowel
(or adding a consonant) is simply to make things totally and utterly
unambiguous.  Putting a {la} type article or a vocative in front of anything
will make it a name.

co'o mi'e robin.