mo_ztt ✅ @lemmy.world
Get outta here with your 'f for "if"
57 1 ReplyBossDj @lemm.ee Not a contraction, but still a recognized linguistic device called a clitic! That's safe to Google, I promise. In this case it's a proclitic
10 1 ReplyPoolloverNathan @programming.dev Saving readers a risky Google: Clitic - Wikipedia
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OR3X @lemm.ee Yeah, it would be y'all'd've if I'd've at most.
36 0 ReplySpaceNoodle @lemmy.world Close. Move the apostrophe from before the I to after.
27 1 Replyyetiftw @lemmy.world nope. the apostrophe replaces the "wou" part of "would"
1 5 ReplySpaceNoodle @lemmy.world Nope, nope, nope. "Would" is not contracted as "'ld," and then there would be no "I." That's a capital I, not a lowercase l.
6 0 Replythreelonmusketeers @sh.itjust.works you all would have if would have?
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Bleeping Lobster @lemmy.world 22 0 Replyflamingos-cant @feddit.uk
It's missing an apostrophe after the I.
13 0 Replyvox @kbin.social
Being from the south..I'm just trying to look back and remember if I've ever used this...it's plausible
10 0 Replyivanafterall @kbin.social
Is this how Gaelic was born?
8 0 Replyamio @kbin.social Where/since when is 'f a thing?
9 1 ReplySpaceNoodle @lemmy.world Fuck'f I know
5 0 Replyzinaer @lemmy.world Always, 'round these parts
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z500 @startrek.website
English is becoming polysynthetic and I am here for it
5 0 ReplyEmerald @lemmy.world Image Transcription: Tumblr
farmsuggestion
y'all'd've'f'ld've
beyoursledgehammer
#you all would have if I would have????
eliciaforever
The South is out of control.
4 0 Replydon @lemm.ee
lol boo didn’t even try asking if it’d float, they just mainlined pure hopium and casually threw it out there “Why yes, ‘f’’ is part of a balanced, healthy contraction used by billions everyday!”
Wrong.
6 2 ReplyPoolloverNathan @programming.dev Not a contraction, but still a recognized linguistic device called a clitic! That’s safe to Google, I promise. In this case it’s a proclitic
— @BossDj@lemm.ee ↑
3 1 Replydon @lemm.ee
Sure, I agree with that, and tbf a respondent in OP’s pic did say it’s almost a complete sentence of contractions, but I felt honor-bound to satirically gatekeeper something that’s fun to screw around with. Language is gonna language, believe me, I’m aware.
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spudwart @spudwart.com
y'all'd've'f'id've'dun'it
4 0 Replyjesuiscequejesuis @lemmy.world You really oughtn't've.
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