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cm0002@lemmy.cafe to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago

We all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?

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We all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?

cm0002@lemmy.cafe to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago
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@overload@sopuli.xyz

As in, doesn’t matter at all to you.

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    I don’t know if shouldn’t’ve is grammatically correct but I hear it a lot so it seems like fair play. Same for other contractions that I never see in text, possibly because they’re wrong. Because’ve. He’d’ve.

    Also like I’ma which can’t possibly be ok, but “I am going to” is for suckers.

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      Would’ve: fine. Would have: fine. Would of: me go mental! Why do people do this?! Argh!

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        I will accept “would ve” before “would of”

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          Agreed. I enjoy that I confused “because of” with “because have” in my own example tho

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        Don’t confuse dialectal differences with bad grammar, please.

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      I like y’all’re

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        Y’all’d’ve (YAWL-duh if your drawl is heavy enough): You all would have

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          Good effort, let’s make it bigger: y’all’d’nt’ve

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      Because have? When and how has that ever been used?

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        Hah! I mightn’t’ve thought enough about that example, probably because of a lack of sleep.

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      I think double contractions are cool. Maybe unnecessary, but cool and reflect real-world speech.

      If I may also propose some triple contraction abominations: I’dn’t’ve (I would not have), he’dn’t’ve (he would not have), she’dn’t’ve (she would not have), etc.

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