Head dropping: Difference between revisions

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In toki pona, a phrase consisting of at least 2 words can be analysed as having a "head" in front (described in pu and other places as "noun" or "verb") and one or more "modifiers" ("adjective" and similar) following the head. The head describes the main concept of the phrase, so it is obviously quite important. However, there are someexperimental creative,ways andthat oftenindividuals experimentalhave wayscome peopleup for how to use toki pona in which the head gets dropped and only the modifiers remain. Even for the more accepted ones, none of these by far are universal. It should also be noted that what some of''refer these might be analysedto'' as not actually be head dropping. Hereis arein someactuality waysa thisfaulty could happen:description.