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  • guy@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish is weird
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    9 months ago

    In the sentence “you have a problem”, “have” is the main verb. When reduced to the clitic “'ve”, it becomes a weak form and is only expected to be used as an auxiliary verb. These types of verbs must be followed by the main verb. “a” is not a verb. Thus, we insert “got”.

    If we do not insert “got”, the stress in the sentence moves and it sounds overly affected.

    I’m not too sure, but I think “be” (“is”, “are”) is the only verb that can be contracted and still remain a main verb. I’m not too sure why.







  • And I’m sure there are many cases where an attempted EEE failed, but that doesn’t get documented in the history, because you only notice it when it is effective.

    Meta isn’t even entering the Lemmy space yet, they’re entering the Mastodon space. They can hardly extend and extinguish Lemmy when they are just barely feature compatible to begin with. Yes it’s all Fediverse, but it’s pretty different.

    The audience, use cases and purposes are different between Lemmy and Threads. At least for now. Consider defederating if that changes


  • guy@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldWhat should we do about Threads?
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, but if they do try to dictate standards, then react, defederate, that’s all I’m saying. I just don’t think we need to be proactive here, our tools to react are fast acting and simple.

    If they do go for the dreaded Embrace, Extend, Extinguish method, then let’s ride the benefits of “Embrace” and lose them when they move on to the next steps.