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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] 83 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 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