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This made perfect sense
And hurt my head
Those are all correct and also sound fine.
I prefer Scottish, where they just ignore the punctuation and string it together. isnae = is not. didnae = did not. cannae = cannot.
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It’s what it’s.
“It’s” specifically is funny because you can use its alternative version “'tis” in some places that you cant use “it’s”.
‘Tis what ‘tis
Tits what tis.
It’s what ‘tis.
Afaik, English grammar requires utterances with predicates to have a stressed element in those predicates. Contractions of only a subject and an auxiliary verb - ex: I am > I’m, he has > he’s, they will > they’ll - eliminate that independent auxiliary as a prosodic segment and violate that grammar.
A - “Who’s going to the store?”
B - “I am.” [ok] or “I’m going.” [ok] (or “I am going.”), but not “I’m.” [bad, obvs].
I’m Henry VIII, I’m.
Some times that rule applies, other times it doesn’t.
Shall we find a situation that’s in the grey zone?
Yeah, let’s!
Nah, we won’t.
~800 years ago:
will = wol
wol not > won’t
The contraction literally isn’t right. It only works with the adverb version of “have”.
it’s what it’s
This one is correct but sounds wrong because we usually say it the other way.
Well they’re all “correct”. They just don’t sound right. Like saying “the red, big apple” instead of “the big, red apple”.
Wait, I remember learning in primary school about the correct order for adjectives. Is that not a thing?
There’s not a rule, it’s just a “sounds correct”. Because English doesn’t have rules, it has exceptions.
Cambridge even uses the word “normally” lol. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order
And here’s a fun stackexchange link where people argue about the order (since there isn’t a rule, it’s all made up). https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1155/what-is-the-rule-for-adjective-order
One good quote from that link:
@cori - the fascinating linguistic point is that native speakers will have subconsciously inferred a rule like this without it ever being stated. The “rule” is really an observation of what they do. All languages and dialects consist of such unconscious rules. – Nathan Long Commented Apr 16, 2013 at 15:25
Fair
You think it do, but it don’t.
They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
That’s wrong. Correct would be “doesn’t”.
Gah! Yes, quite rightn’t.
If I could add another contraction to that list, I’d
That “it’s” is evil. It’s going to be in my head for a long time
A contraction is a separate word, with its own accepted usages in the community. For example, “gonna” comes from “going to”, but is not the same, as “I’m gonna the shop, do you want anything?” sounds wrong
Yeah, “gonna” needs to be followed by a verb for it to sound right, I think, with the exception of it being used as a response affirming they’ll be doing an action.
“You gonna go to the store?”
“I’m gonna, just gettin my shoes on first.”Sometimes they end up that way (at which point they stop being contractions). However, there are also cases where distinct syntactic words end up being pronounced as phonetically single words. Or, as my morphology professor put it, “word” is not a meaningful category.
For example, consider the sentence “I’m happy”. What is the subject of this sentence? The verb? What part of speach is “I’m”?
Language is…
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had the dumb thought that if you and your friends are imprisoned, you’d ask the warden to “let’s out!”
Some folks will never eat a skunk, but then again some folk’ll.
Cletus, the slack jawed yokel?
This must be why Data can’t use contractions. Except in those episodes where he apparently can.
