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Re: [lojban] optional punctuation



And Rosta wrote:


What do lone cmevla outside cmene expressions parse as?


A bare cmevla is grammatical if it's a stand-alone text;
the meaning is not clearly defined.

Bare cmevla used to be vocatives, but this caused grammatical
problems, so (the Loglan equivalent of) "doi" was introduced.

they have no other function, and I can't remember why not, or why
we are at such pains to make our cmene end in consonants.


For morphological resolution.

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