Get outta here with your 'f for "if"
55Not a contraction, but still a recognized linguistic device called a clitic! That's safe to Google, I promise. In this case it's a proclitic
9Saving readers a risky Google: Clitic - Wikipedia
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Yeah, it would be y'all'd've if I'd've at most.
35No way that i in if would be pronounced.
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Close. Move the apostrophe from before the I to after.
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22You really oughtn't've.
13It's missing an apostrophe after the I.
11Being from the south..I'm just trying to look back and remember if I've ever used this...it's plausible
10Is this how Gaelic was born?
8Where/since when is 'f a thing?
6Fuck'f I know
5Always, 'round these parts
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English is becoming polysynthetic and I am here for it
5Image Transcription: Tumblr
farmsuggestion
y'all'd've'f'ld've
beyoursledgehammer
#you all would have if I would have????
eliciaforever
The South is out of control.
4y'all'd've'f'id've'dun'it
4lol boo didn’t even try asking if it’d float, they just mainlined pure hopium and casually threw it out there “Why yes, ‘f’’ is part of a balanced, healthy contraction used by billions everyday!”
Wrong.
3Not a contraction, but still a recognized linguistic device called a clitic! That’s safe to Google, I promise. In this case it’s a proclitic
— @BossDj@lemm.ee ↑
3Sure, I agree with that, and tbf a respondent in OP’s pic did say it’s almost a complete sentence of contractions, but I felt honor-bound to satirically gatekeeper something that’s fun to screw around with. Language is gonna language, believe me, I’m aware.
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