IN OTHER NEWS
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IN OTHER NEWS
every day i wake up doubting my ability to communicate in the language of Izzard and Shakespeare, yet there’s some of y’all hegemons using can’t in a contracted double negative on friggin Midsomer Murders:
❝ this can’tn’t be easy for you ❞
really karen? REALLY?!?!?
unfuckinbelievable.
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IN OTHER NEWS
every day i wake up doubting my ability to communicate in the language of Izzard and Shakespeare, yet there’s some of y’all hegemons using can’t in a contracted double negative on friggin Midsomer Murders:
❝ this can’tn’t be easy for you ❞
really karen? REALLY?!?!?
unfuckinbelievable.
Hmm - I guess my oral English includes that form. I'd never parsed it out, and I'd never write it, and if I had to, it would be spelled "can'n't".
It feels different to "can't", like I'm appending a subjunctive qualifier to the verb.
But idiolect is idiolect, and grammatical rules are state violence.
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IN OTHER NEWS
every day i wake up doubting my ability to communicate in the language of Izzard and Shakespeare, yet there’s some of y’all hegemons using can’t in a contracted double negative on friggin Midsomer Murders:
❝ this can’tn’t be easy for you ❞
really karen? REALLY?!?!?
unfuckinbelievable.
It ain't'nt not like that.
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Hmm - I guess my oral English includes that form. I'd never parsed it out, and I'd never write it, and if I had to, it would be spelled "can'n't".
It feels different to "can't", like I'm appending a subjunctive qualifier to the verb.
But idiolect is idiolect, and grammatical rules are state violence.
❝ But idiolect is idiolect, and grammatical rules are state violence.❞
this is sending me. well done 🤣 🤣 🤣
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