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Personally, I don't and I'm a native English speaker. I doubt many who weren't would have any chance of deciphering the meaning here either.
by craigmccaskill 11y ago
Personally, I don't and I'm a native English speaker. I doubt many who weren't would have any chance of deciphering the meaning here either.
- ridgeguy 11y agoIt's just an ellipsis. Or, as my first Google hit said: "the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues." So: I would rather [have] a bus any day.
- jcrawfordor 11y agoI see this usage fairly regularly. I'm not 100% certain of this, but I think it might be more common in Britain than America.
- gdy 11y agoIs "I would rather you did..." odd too? Not a native speaker here :)
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- EdwardDiego 11y ago> Personally, I don't That's more on you than the OP. It's hardly an unknown phrasing.