CONLANG Digest - 24 Sep 2003 to 25 Sep 2003 (#2003-271)

Quoting BP:
> >My mother frequently skips her subject pronouns in written notes.  Always
> >has.  (See, I just dropped a subject pronoun.)  It drives my husband
> >slightly nuts, but I'm used to it.
>
> I drop _jag_ "I" all the time in text messages/SMS, which drives my
> would-be wife[1] nuts.  And Swedish certainly isn't pro-drop...
I sometimes wonder about that. In informal speech I may drop _jag_ more often
than not, especially if I'm speaking in single sentences rather than connected
narrative. I similarly sometimes drop _du_ or _ni_ ("you" sg and pl), typically
in questions.

However, this is probably fairly strictly ideolectal.

                                                        Andreas