• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I of course don’t speak ancient languages, but I believe pronouns existed 2000 years ago too.

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        1 year ago

        That’s also true of Estonian and Spanish, but in the case of “I am he”, you’d shorten away the actor, but not the target of the action, so you’d keep one pronoun still at least.