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Nonono little kids look away. You saw nothing. /j (nah i just murdered a tone marker)
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A '''donkey sentence''' is a kind of sentence that occurs in natural language, where an anaphoric pronoun (like {{t|hó}}) refers to a quantified variable (like {{t|sa | A '''donkey sentence''' is a kind of sentence that occurs in natural language, where an anaphoric pronoun (like {{t|hó}}) refers to a quantified variable (like {{t|sa ảqshe}}) even though it is outside of that variable's scope. | ||
It is named after the following prototypical example of such a sentence: | It is named after the following prototypical example of such a sentence: | ||