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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, and I can't quite explain why it's so wrong. You're is technically a substitution for "you are" but it's never used like this. Maybe because it doesn't sound like the way it'd be spoken like it does normally?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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. Or something like that; IDK I'm not a linguist.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Congrats on finding the clitic!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I thought it was a myth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
  • "He was ten times the man you're"
  • "I'm greater than he's"
  • "Who do you think you're"
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Interestingly enough it's often pronounced like that just because common parlance lends itself to elisions.