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What Should I Call "You"? Part 1: Zero Pronouns

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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YO, You Shouldn't Spell a Third Person Pronoun, Right?

In english, like to say what you're talking about, not just, it'll be vague. If i ay, agedecison tes, we can assume an talking about me. And if i say ogas, canly assume i'm asking about you. Yo, like wi o the think with the second person pronounced o am. Well, text books or teachers usually say that it's rude to yo ton person per person, ponolane, for example.

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