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[lojban] Re: "la" in names
On 8 Nov, 2006, at 22:24, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:36:16PM -0500, Robert McIvor wrote:
I might note that Loglan removed the restriction on names
beginning with La, or any other letter group that could precede a
bare name (e.g. Hoi (which precedes a vocative) ci (hyphen, for
reasons which follow)) by introducing the following rules.
Such a name used as as a vocative must be preceded by 'hoi' , or
'la' when used in an argument.
By "such a name" I'm assuming you mean a name with 'hoi' or 'la' in
it. That doesn't help, because the whole problem has been that
*people don't notice*. People use names with "la" all the time
without noticing that they are special.
I said "such a name" because JCB would not accept 'hoi' (Lojban
'doi'?) befpre
all cmene used as vocatives. You will note that the rules I mentioned
could be applied
to all cmene without ambiguity and would permit omission of the pause
before cmene
iin all instances.
I mention this only as information as to what another group with
the same problem
has done. If I recall correctly, it did not require any change to
the existing grammar.
(making bare cmene ungrammatical would have involved a change, however)
Bob McIvor
-Robin
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