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Unmistakable sound of true rule (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Salo Comics, I think?

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 3 months ago (12 children)

"You're already" what?

I kinda hate the author even more than the husband.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, and I can't quite explain why it's so wrong. You're is technically a substitution for "you are" but it's never used like this. Maybe because it doesn't sound like the way it'd be spoken like it does normally?

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I actually know this! Or at least, I half-remembered it barely well enough to find the Tom Scott video that taught me about it: there’dn’t’ve.

TL;DW: trying to use a clitic without an object to go with it creates a syntactic gap and has weird stress patterns. Or something like that; IDK I'm not a linguist.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Congrats on finding the clitic!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I thought it was a myth

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