5 ms·

> China'll That's an interesting grammatical contraction...

• capableweb 5y ago
  Reacted to that too, seems to be because of the length limit (80). "China will hold supporters of Taiwan independence criminally responsible for life" has 81 characters.
  • jjoonathan 5y ago
    But this is 80 too: "China to hold supporters of Taiwan independence criminally responsible for life."
  • salzig 5y ago
    maybe it's correct, "China II. will hold supporters of Taiwan...".
• sdoering 5y ago
  I am not a native speaker and stumbled over this massively. Had to read the headline thrice until I realized what bugged me.
  • yosito 5y ago
    That's interesting to me. I guess contractions of "I'll", "he'll", "she'll" and "they'll" are probably pretty common, but with other things, not commonly written. As a native speaker, I wouldn't have even noticed. In spoken English, I think I'd say things like this 100% of the time. Recently, I've been learning Hungarian, which is an agglutinative language where meaning is added via endings on words. For example, "with" is the ending "-val", so "with yosito" becomes "yosito-val". I found it really hard to follow at first, since virtually every word in Hungarian is like this, and I see some similarities with contractions in English.
  • heurisko 5y ago
    As a native speaker it made me faintly irritated, as the 'll informal contraction didn't fit the right tone for the title.
  • stjohnswarts 5y ago
    haha it wouldn't be an uncommon expression in informal English (depending on the region of the USA) but to see it in print like that is unusual.
• deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
• deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]