m.kornig@sondal.net schrieb:
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.}?
I ben der Klaus unn schwätz Schwäbisch. <-> I heuß Klaus.At least some German dialects and Portuguese like an article when referring to a person by name. What's worse, the languages that don't often don't offer a vocative case either to sidtinguish between mentioning and adressing a person.
So the Lojbanic practice is not that uncommon. Klaus