Salo Comics, I think?

  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    5 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?

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      5 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.