overload@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-23 months agoWe all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1message-squareWe all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?overload@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-23 months agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarechosensilence@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoinformal contractions are simply informal just because. there’s no real reason to consider them informal or not standard other than arbitrary rules. “You shouldn’t’ve done that.” “It couldn’t’ve been him!” “I might’ve done that if you asked.”
minus-squarehuquad@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThis is the one that still ends up in my technical writing.
minus-squareoverload@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-23 months agoI think if I took it too far and said that all contractions are basically acceptable, y’all’d’n’t’ve agreed with me.
minus-squareDessalines@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 months agoThis looks aggressively welsh.
informal contractions are simply informal just because. there’s no real reason to consider them informal or not standard other than arbitrary rules.
“You shouldn’t’ve done that.” “It couldn’t’ve been him!” “I might’ve done that if you asked.”
This is the one that still ends up in my technical writing.
I think if I took it too far and said that all contractions are basically acceptable, y’all’d’n’t’ve agreed with me.
This looks aggressively welsh.
You all did not have