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[–] grue@lemmy.world 83 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] fionnafire@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Congrats on finding the clitic!

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

I thought it was a myth