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And Rosta scripsit:
> That is the question. Does unbound ko'a take a referent glorked from
> context, or does it produce meaningless sentences.
The traditional view is that the referent is glorked, and I see no reason
to change this. People who don't like using ko'a that way shouldn't use it.
There are many, many other forms (le-descriptors being the obvious one)
whose referents must be glorked, after all.
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