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I included a footnote about that in my post. Latin is similar to Spanish here in that the subject pronoun is optional and commonly omitted. One thing I don't h
by schoen 7y ago
I included a footnote about that in my post. Latin is similar to Spanish here in that the subject pronoun is optional and commonly omitted.
One thing I don't have a clear sense of is how much including it in Latin draws attention to it. In Spanish it certainly does and so it's used, for example, to suggest contrasts between people (I do this [unlike other people?]). I don't remember whether I've seen or heard it used in Latin with a similar emphatic sense.
- jjtheblunt 7y agonominative case is all over the place in the Aeneid, for example. I'd conjecture that the elision of an explicit noun, given a conjugated verb, is a convenience whose viability is contextual.
- schoen 7y agoIt's sometimes hard to gauge idiomaticity from poetry, though, because poets do so many unusual things for the sake of the meter.
- jjtheblunt 7y agoYour comment rings true; I really agree. Dactylic and iambic don't come for free.
- FabHK 7y ago"I love you - as opposed to everyone else" :-)