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Unmistakable sound of true rule (lemmy.world)

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Salo Comics, I think?

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[-] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago

Congrats on finding the clitic!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I thought it was a myth

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