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Your neighbor has a strange diet.
you got that right. pronoun antecedent issues
I wonder if some languages have a way to avoid it. Maybe different pronouns for the subject and object?
Not knowing anything, I would guess some languages just don't have pronouns or our equivalent
I hadn't considered that. Could be.
None of us considered the fact I said "neigh-bour"
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Oh man, I missed that! Shame on me.
If pronouns didn't exist we would have to invent them.
If pronouns didn't exist we would have to invent them.
If pronouns didn't exist we would have to invent them.
If pronouns didn't exist we would have to invent them.