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 ===Syntactic pivots===
-Syntactic pivoting (the practice of omitting a subject entirely in a clause when the previous clause has it as a subject, e.g. ''He took my gift and went'') is disallowed: a pronoun can be used as a subject in the following clause if the previous clause has its antecedent as its subject.
+Normally, syntactic pivoting (the practice of omitting a subject entirely in a clause when the previous clause has it as a subject, e.g. ''He took my gift and went'') is disallowed: a pronoun can be used as a subject in the following clause if the previous clause has its antecedent as its subject. So if you ask a Tíogall speaker to translate "I am dark but beautiful", they'll probably give you ''Cocht ná ach subhan ná''.
 [[Category:Tíogall]]