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Unmistakable sound of true rule (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Salo Comics, I think?

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 111 points 3 months ago

"You're already" what?

I kinda hate the author even more than the husband.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 52 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 83 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.