Subject: Re: [lojban] optional punctuation

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 14:47:27 -0400

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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