raresbears@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK it's either "should have" or "should've". "Should of" is incorrect
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1 year agoITT: Awful linguistics takes
ITT: Awful linguistics takes
Pretty sure it’s actually one of those mistakes that is made more often by native speakers than non-native speakers
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I am the newer generations though
Is it just me that has literally never heard anyone bring up the colour of bubbles irl? Like I’ve seen people talk about it on the internet from time to time but never in the real world.
Well that’s what’s happening here isn’t it. It’s a word that is potentially gaining an additional use as a result of reanalysis. Whether it sticks around long term remains to be seen, but language is defined by usage and it’s foolish to pretend there’s such a thing as objectively correct. Already the use of the verb ‘to have’ to form the perfect in this case is quite different from it’s other meanings related to ‘to possess’. And that’s not even getting into you describing nonstandard usage as the result of ‘mush-mouthed laziness’ which is a whole nother can of worms.