“You’re already” makes sense as a sentence and I don’t like it lol
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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I hate you so much rn
I threw up in my dictionary
The reason it feels wrong is that "are" is the main verb in the sentence and shouldn't be contracted. You are only supposed to contract auxiliary verbs like "you're eating already" where eating is the main verb and are is auxiliary.
~~Edit: (I used a bad example because "eating" is a noun, as pointed out below.)~~
Un-edit: The example's correct, "eating" is a verb in this context.
Also, I'm thoroughly confused about who's saying "you're already" in this comic.
But "You're already fluffy" works without another main verb?
Yes. It doesn't work as "you're already" and really, it doesn't work all thay well as "you are already" either. This is almost yoda levels of rearrangement.
It makes the most sense as "you already are".
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Yup, this is likely a phonological restriction in addition to a syntactic one, though it's worth noting that the copula (the "be" verb) shows a lot of idiosyncratic behavior in different contexts in different dialects of English.
It seems that this pattern may have something to do with stress assignment within a predicate, but I'm not sure what the conditioning environment is at first glance. Any English phonologists here who can shed some more light on this?
I'm no expert, but I think "you're already" doesn't work because the "anti-stress" on the contraction tells us the focus is later, but the focus of "already" is actually on the "are" in "you're". It trips us up because it sneaks the focus past us and then just ends the sentence before the focus the stress told us about arrives.
It may also be because "you are already" is a variant of the sentence "you are" which can't be contracted, so the contraction insinuates "you're already [something]". It makes us parse a different sentence structure than it is, then we get confused when the sentence ends early.
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Its obviously the cat's ass, which explains its facial expression.
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She's already what though?
Omae wa mo
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"If you want the cat experience, get the fluffy ear hair band, soft paw mittens and pluggable tail..."
Every time someone mentions genetic engieneering first response they get from people of my age is "When catgirls?"
Wtf is up with all the cat girl stuff? When did it become so popular?
Anime was a mistake
My wife always gets mad when I point out that the dog sits around all day, demands the food off of her plate, and constantly interrupts her when he is bored or wants attention, but she spends hours doting over him and praising him. I, on the other hand, work all day to sustain our lifestyle, spend a lot of my "leisure" time doing chores around the house, and am mindful to be polite, but I barely get a hug and "I love you".
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For anyone who is in doubt, I mean it in jest. I don't need constant reassurance and reward to keep being a responsible adult. Also, though she will not admit it, she knows the dog is much cuter than me.
She's Bajoran
TIL "chu" is the sound of a kiss.
I think that's the noise they make in Japanese.
"Chu" is like "mwah".
Another fun one, instead of "ribbit" they say "kero".
Ribbit Ribbit Bonito?!
It's Bugsnax!
talkin' 'bout bugsnax
Is that game any good? I only know it because I'm a big fan of their music.
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And sometimes lasers
That answer would 100% make me single one way or another.
I totally kiss my SO like that.
You can't put your face down on a pussy like that without blood splattering everywhere.
Plenty of cats will let you snuggle and love like this (not all ofc) Cats are more of a companionship, they will only let people they trust love on them.
Now I'm wondering if you got downvoted so badly because people are reading something else into your comment
Yeah, I think people thought he was talking about a cat and had a different experience.
Only if it's that time of the month
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Having a death wish aren't we?
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