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!”
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.
22 Comments
mo_ztt@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 2y
Get outta here with your 'f for "if"
BossDj@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
Saving readers a risky Google: Clitic - Wikipedia
OR3X@lemm.ee · 36 pts · 2y
Yeah, it would be y'all'd've if I'd've at most.
samus12345@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y
Close. Move the apostrophe from before the I to after.
yetiftw@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 2y
nope. the apostrophe replaces the "wou" part of "would"
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
you all would have if would have?
Transcendant@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y
flamingos@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 2y
It's missing an apostrophe after the I.
jesuiscequejesuis@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
You really oughtn't've.
vox@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y
Being from the south..I'm just trying to look back and remember if I've ever used this...it's plausible
amio@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y
Where/since when is 'f a thing?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Fuck'f I know
zinaer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Always, 'round these parts
ivanafterall@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y
Is this how Gaelic was born?
z500@startrek.website · 5 pts · 2y
English is becoming polysynthetic and I am here for it
spudwart@spudwart.com · 4 pts · 2y
y'all'd've'f'id've'dun'it
Emerald@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
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farmsuggestion
y'all'd've'f'ld've
beyoursledgehammer
#you all would have if I would have????
eliciaforever
The South is out of control.
don@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
— @BossDj@lemm.ee ↑
don@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
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.