OT: implied pronouns, was: sorta OT: cases: please help...

laokou wrote:
> Blew *my* mind. In high school Latin and Spanish, we had it
> inculcated that the reason you didn't need pronouns was because
> it was "in the verb". Then along came Chinese and Japanese (and
> Korean, too, though I hadn't studied it then), which dropped pronouns
> at the drop of a hat.  Different pragmatics, different Weltanschauung.
We do it some in English too.  "Went to the movies last night;
saw `Iron Monkey'."  "Enjoy it?"  "Loved it."


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