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I am not a native speaker and stumbled over this massively. Had to read the headline thrice until I realized what bugged me.
by 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 agoThat'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 agoAs a native speaker it made me faintly irritated, as the 'll informal contraction didn't fit the right tone for the title.
- stjohnswarts 5y agohaha 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.