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BossDjreply
lemm.ee

Not a contraction, but still a recognized linguistic device called a clitic! That's safe to Google, I promise. In this case it's a proclitic

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lemm.ee

Yeah, it would be y'all'd've if I'd've at most.

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yetiftwreply
lemmy.world

nope. the apostrophe replaces the "wou" part of "would"

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Nope, nope, nope. "Would" is not contracted as "'ld," and then there would be no "I." That's a capital I, not a lowercase l.

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Being from the south..I'm just trying to look back and remember if I've ever used this...it's plausible

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farmsuggestion

y'all'd've'f'ld've


beyoursledgehammer

#you all would have if I would have????


eliciaforever

The South is out of control.

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don
lemm.ee

lol boo didn’t even try asking if it’d float, they just mainlined pure hopium and casually threw it out there “Why yes, ‘f’’ is part of a balanced, healthy contraction used by billions everyday!”

Wrong.

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donreply

Sure, I agree with that, and tbf a respondent in OP’s pic did say it’s almost a complete sentence of contractions, but I felt honor-bound to satirically gatekeeper something that’s fun to screw around with. Language is gonna language, believe me, I’m aware.

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