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===Syntactic pivots===
===Syntactic pivots===
In normal registers, syntactic pivoting (the practice of omitting a subject entirely in a clause when the previous clause has it as a subject, e.g. ''He will take my gift and go'' would be translated as ''Tobθjeo hu eo mid rjeona eos θeorθjeo hu''.) is disallowed for verbs: a pronoun can be used as a subject in the following clause if the previous clause has its antecedent as its subject. However, it is used for adjectives: "Dark am I yet beautiful" can be translated as ''Moct na, a sumeon''.
In normal registers, syntactic pivoting (the practice of omitting a subject entirely in a clause when the previous clause has it as a subject, e.g. ''He will take my gift and go'' would be translated as ''Tobθjeo hu neo mid eos θeorθjeo hu''.) is disallowed for verbs: a pronoun can be used as a subject in the following clause if the previous clause has its antecedent as its subject. However, it is used for adjectives: "Dark am I yet beautiful" can be translated as ''Moct na, a sumeon''.


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