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[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

Get outta here with your 'f for "if"

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

Saving readers a risky Google: Clitic - Wikipedia

[-] OR3X@lemm.ee 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, it would be y'all'd've if I'd've at most.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Close. Move the apostrophe from before the I to after.

[-] yetiftw@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago

nope. the apostrophe replaces the "wou" part of "would"

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

you all would have if would have?

[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago
[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 13 points 10 months ago

It's missing an apostrophe after the I.

[-] jesuiscequejesuis@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

You really oughtn't've.

[-] vox@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

Being from the south..I'm just trying to look back and remember if I've ever used this...it's plausible

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

Is this how Gaelic was born?

[-] amio@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

Where/since when is 'f a thing?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Fuck'f I know

[-] zinaer@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Always, 'round these parts

[-] z500@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

English is becoming polysynthetic and I am here for it

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] spudwart@spudwart.com 4 points 10 months ago

y'all'd've'f'id've'dun'it

[-] don@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] don@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

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.

this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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