702
Makes perfect sense (suppo.fi)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
43 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A contraction is a separate word, with its own accepted usages in the community. For example, “gonna” comes from “going to”, but is not the same, as “I’m gonna the shop, do you want anything?” sounds wrong

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, "gonna" needs to be followed by a verb for it to sound right, I think, with the exception of it being used as a response affirming they'll be doing an action.
    "You gonna go to the store?"
    "I'm gonna, just gettin my shoes on first."

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Sometimes they end up that way (at which point they stop being contractions). However, there are also cases where distinct syntactic words end up being pronounced as phonetically single words. Or, as my morphology professor put it, "word" is not a meaningful category.

    For example, consider the sentence "I'm happy". What is the subject of this sentence? The verb? What part of speach is "I'm"?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent