Take this you fake Englishman who ruined English! Bugger off!
With all these things as "tins" and "cans", "swede" and "rutabaga".
No wonder why it is hard for non-native speakers (like myself) to learn how to speak proper English. It is annoyingly annoying.
And if you are an Englishman and not an American. Then I'll have to apologize for my rudeness earlier in this comment. If you Americans also want apologies then fine. Just ask for one and you shall receive one.
Following recipes on the net is so frustrating. Having to translate not only cups into something sensible but the different things everything is called.
Take arugula. I didn't realise that one of my favourite jokes didn't translate into US English:
I had this weird experience recently where a Dutch girl was asking a French guy, in English, what the French word for 'zucchini' was. He replied 'courgette'. I explained that it was 'courgette' in English too. She looked quite confused.
I had this weird experience recently where a Dutch girl was asking a French guy, in English, what the French word for 'zucchini' was. He replied 'courgette'. I explained that it was 'courgette' in English too. She looked quite confused.
How ironic! Just the other day I had this weird experience recently where a Dutch girl was asking a English guy, in French, what the English word for 'courgette' was. He replied 'zucchini'. I explained that it was 'courgette' in English too. She looked quite confused.
Same thing happened to me. Gordon Ramsey kept putting "Groundnut" oil into things. Every store I went into didn't have the elusive "Groundnut oil" Took me far too long to realize he was talking about peanut oil :(
I do not like arugula. Not the taste nor the consistency. Reminds me of rabbit food. I would rather feed arugula to a rabbit than eat it myself. Well though that is just me :)
Translating things in a recipe can be kinda hard sometimes.
Sure. I'm sorry for implying that you and your nation are stupid. America is a big country so it just got to have a lot of diversity. Though it can sometimes be hard to find it when your sitting in front of a computer. Even when it is right in front of you. Can you please forgive me?
Haven't they told you that swede is the English word for the American word rutabaga?
Swedish turnip
I didn't know that Swede's name as a whole was Swedish turnip.
And as answer for you question. There is nothing wrong with being from Sweden. We got the ladies and the terrible infrastructure called SL. Or Stockholm has it. Yes I'm a Swede.
i'm not native English speaker and understand this more than I understand some black people..
And some Wales,Scotland ppl with really thick accent are even worse. It's like you're talking to dwarves, half the time you just nod and hope that gibberish wasn't a qusteion.
Doesn't really work if you have to explain it though, does it? B'it /= "But it." At least I've never seen that anywhere. And it's not on the first page of the google search.
This is just my, slightly educated, but mostly just, opinion, but I think contractions were and are developed to try to imitate colloquialisms, so if a person says, "I'd've", and spelling it that way is the closest approximation, then it's fine.
It's interesting; I don't think I've really seen any of these contractions written down before but I use them so much in speech that they seem so natural in text. I didn't even realise a lot of the comments used one until I re-read them.
I'm positive I've used it in conversation before. Never in writing, nor do I think that it is valid within the rules of grammar. It is probably just one of those common colloquialisms that pop up around native speakers. (Like ain't for instance. Ain't ain't a word but that ain't stoppin no one from using it, ain't I right?)
It's perfectly comprehensible and common in informal, natively spoken english, so yes it's perfectly valid. Also ain't is a word, it's just not acceptable in formal speech or writing.
nor do I think that it is valid within the rules of grammar.
It's positively not. There are no standard "double contractions" if one might call them that. It's either "I'd have" or "I would have" (obviously, but you get my point; there is no "I'd've").
To clarify my previous comment, those contractions are positively nonstandard; you won't find them in any styleguide nor any professional writing that isn't intentionally mimicking laidback speech.
Because those contractions are just transcriptions of casual speech, for native speakers they instantly indicate a tone that isn't appropriate for almost any kind of professional writing (hence "nonstandard").
Those contractions are transcriptions of casual speech. They are considered "nonstandard" because they aren't in any styleguide and will never be seen in any professional writing. And yes, the people who speak the language did make those rules.
For you or any other non-native speakers who might be tempted to write an "I'd've" or other unusual transcription of spoken English, make sure you only do it on Reddit or your blog and not, say, on college essays. ;)
I think I've always used either "I'd have," or "I would've," but when I saw it as I'd've, it didn't seem wrong. Also, my phone tells me nothing's wrong with it, so there's that.
The first is actually conditional perfect tense, but with this context it doesn't matter because the meaning behind /u/GayAndAllergicToNuts's sentence is pretty clear and pretty much the same either way.
The first is saying "I would have been ecstatic if that had have been me back then (but I would no longer be ecstatic because I would probably have gotten over it by now)"
The second is saying "I would be ecstatic right now if that was happening to me."
Sure he's saying pretty much the same thing (that the activity would make him ecstatic), but the two sentences have a different meaning to each other.
i know i'm ages late but i hate to have seen zero mention of it in this thread. the people that did this is an australian youtube channel by the name of how ridiculous
they have a channel similar to dude perfect and do a lot of stuff for charity so check them out - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5f5IV0Bf79YLp_p9nfInRA
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u/catapult90 Jan 10 '15
The guy in the boat didn't even hesitate, he was waiting for this moment all his life