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submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Salo Comics, I think?

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 82 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I actually know this! Or at least, I half-remembered it barely well enough to find the Tom Scott video that taught me about it: there’dn’t’ve.

TL;DW: trying to use a clitic without an object to go with it creates a syntactic gap and has weird stress patterns.

[–] fionnafire@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Congrats on finding the clitic!

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

I thought it was a myth