That's irrelevant; I don't like proposing
changes to the language
when what's there isn't broken.
But whether it is broken depends upon where you
draw the line; betsemes' examples look close to
that line on almost any definition of "broken"
(short of "Can't say it at all") and way over it
on some. Since what happens between {la} and the
next significant pause is pretty open, both in
form and interpretation, we need not to the
overly analytic version for "Little John," but
the predicate case seems to have no obvious
alternative (well, hooking {lai kraislr} on at
the end by some BAI, rather than by {me} in the
predication directly -- but that is not on the
present topic).