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Re:My Many Girlfriends by dnautics on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:51AM (#29825088)
well hold on. In italian you have at least the verb endings to help you infer the pronoun. You don't have that in japanese, it's fully contextual.
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Re:My Many Girlfriends by speakspokespok on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:37PM (#29832275)
I'm currently formally learning Mexican Spanish in Mexico. In day to day life here it's very uncommon to hear the pronoun. The only exceptions I can think of are 'Usted/Ustedes' or 'Nos'.

Using or not using the pronoun has the same emphasis as saying to someone:

'You're drunk.' versus pointedly saying 'You, are drunk'.

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Soy Latte, por favor! (In Spanish this translates literally as 'I'm a latte. please.')

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Re:My Many Girlfriends by spacechild1 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:07PM (#29830169)
You're right, of course.
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