Re: No pronoun, no article
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Saturday, October 18, 2003, 2:22 |
Nik Taylor scripsit:
> If you are a teacher, could you use "teacher" as a first-person pronoun?
Presumably. CY is a deliberately underspecified language: the idea was
to have lots of possibilities and then let language users choose which
features would actually be used.
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