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I've heard a regional English construction for this: "needs X'd". For your examples: - The pull request needs reviewed - The trash needs emptied - The dog ne
by pyridines 3y ago
I've heard a regional English construction for this: "needs X'd". For your examples:
- The pull request needs reviewed
- The trash needs emptied
- The dog needs walked
Just one(ish) extra syllable!
- hnick 3y agoThey might be just removing "to be", that's what I love about English you can break and abuse it and it still mostly makes sense. You could even drop the "the" and "-ed" from those phrases and most people would still understand what you mean by "dog needs walk".
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- pyridines 3y agoyeah, they are just dropping "to be". But "dog needs walk" sounds wrong, whereas "the dog needs walked" sounds normal to the people who use it. I don't know whether there is a reason almost nobody says "dog needs walk", but I don't know much about linguistics :)
- jschveibinz 3y agoNortheast Ohio uses this construction rather than the “-ing” gerund. It took me awhile to change that when I moved to the East Coast.
- once_inc 3y agoSouthern Hillbilly uses the same construction with a prefixed a: "This here dog needs awalkin'"