My apologies, since this post actually contains a swear word, id...t, which I'm going to censor. But this came up with a test reader of a text I'm working on:

You id...t actually find her fascinating, don’t you?

A test reader thought this sounded weird and unusual. So I went to research uses by others, and indeed, almost nobody says this!

This confuses me, since I find tons of uses of:

  • This id...t actually is...

  • These id...ts actually are...

  • You id...ts actually are....

...but not for this singular form as a direct address.

Is there something grammatically wrong with it? Is it valid, but for some reason people prefer You id...t, you actually are... anyway?

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[–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Thank you so much!! The examples really helped. And sorry for censoring over-eagerly, I wanted to avoid having my first post of all things littered with that word I guess 😆

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