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I listen to a lot of Japanese music, and a common trend I've seen with a lot
of them are to say 「≪pronoun≫≪noun≫」. For example,

> 「あたし猫」 = "I'm a cat."

My question is, is this grammatically correct? I thought you needed は or が to
mark the subject/topic, like so:

> 「あたしは猫」/「あたしが猫」= "I'm a cat."

Which would make the former:

> 「あたし猫」 = "I, cat."

But, I know Japanese doesn't abide by English grammar standards, nor does は/が
inherently mean "is/am"etc. So, I ask,

  1. How would「あたし猫」be translated?
  2. Is it grammatically correct? (Even if the English translation turns out to be something like "I, cat."?)
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grammar particle-は particle-が
is は/が always needed to make a grammatically correct sentence?
1. It means exactly the same as `あたしは猫`/`あたしが猫`
  2. Grammatically it is incorrect. But in reality(at least for Japanese), most of the sentence we speak is not grammatically correct at all when we are talking with friends.  
Ex) `この後何する？`
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