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I would say “I’d guess it’s some German supercar.” Does contracting the “I would” make it more difficult for a non native speaker to understand?
by irrational 5y ago
I would say “I’d guess it’s some German supercar.” Does contracting the “I would” make it more difficult for a non native speaker to understand?
- detaro 5y agoAs a non-native speaker, I'd say it depends on their background and how they learned. To me it feels completely normal and the non-contracted form took longer for me to parse, I think because the contraction is more common in colloquial communication with native speakers, but I'm also sure that if you tried this on me at a point in life where I had mostly school english to go on, the contraction would be more difficult.