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camdez
on July 20, 2015
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Toki Pona: a human language with 120 words
Very cool. So dropping subject pronouns ("pro-drop") is formally acceptable?
schoen
on July 20, 2015
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Well, I wouldn't regard toki pona as pro-drop in general -- subject pronouns are normally required (in part because verbs don't inflect for person and number). But there is a special case for answering a yes-no question:
http://rowa.giso.de/languages/toki-pona/english/latex/Answer...
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