• Resol van Lemmy
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    224 hours ago

    Pronouns are a basic part of language. Getting rid of them makes communication way harder. Unless you speak Spanish, I guess.

      • Resol van Lemmy
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        83 hours ago

        I know they exist, it’s simply the fact that they’re not usually required in daily speech, since verb conjugation gives the context of the pronoun anyway.

        • @lugal
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          21 hour ago

          For subject pronouns, object pronouns are obligatory

    • @toynbee
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      33 hours ago

      Spanish pronouns are used mainly in the plain.

      (Side note: I thought the original quote was something like “the rain in Spain falls mostly on the Spaniards,” but I can’t find anything to support that. Only today did I even learn that it was from a song.)

        • @toynbee
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          3 hours ago

          Apparently, “The Rain in Spain.” (To be clear, I would not have known that before looking it up to verify the quote.)

          The original lyric I was parodying was “the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.” (Which, again, I would have gotten wrong if I hadn’t researched it.)

          edit: After a few minutes reviewing YouTube videos, apparently it was prose recited by the protagonist of “My Fair Lady,” the movie from which that song came. Eventually she gained confidence via that song.

          I don’t know, I previously lacked context for the quote, but after watching a relevant video I realize I’ve seen a parody of it in Family Guy.