Vocative in a sentence as a noun

Is of vocative case, roughly meaning "Go away!

It would have been a comma instead of colons if "Linus" were in the vocative case.

What the poll shows is that it's only considered neutral when plural, and in the vocative case.

My English monolingual classmates minds were blown by things like noun cases and the vocative.

Vocative in a sentence as an adjective

Heck, people don't even decline my name properly when speaking to me, since English doesn't use the vocative case.

Irish has a vocative case that can modify names, and is an official language of a UN member state.

Маш is a new invention, not related to the original vocative, like боже

Vocative definitions

noun

the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed

adjective

relating to a case used in some languages; "vocative verb endings"