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“You’re already” makes sense as a sentence and I don’t like it lol
It's what it's
Y’all’s opinions are irrelevant here. We are enemies now.
I don't understand what yinz guys is sayin
Youse people…
Don't start with that philly jawn
Philly? I do hope you're kidding
Not kidding, just ignorant 😞
Ha! That's Pittsburghese, friend!
I realized my faux pas TOO LATE! I got my yinz and jawn all mixed up!
Y’all’sis perfectly good Texan though.That’s not better… just different
Not much offense, I was born and raised in Texas. Happy as fuck to not be there now
twitch
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".
Right you're
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.
Its obviously the cat's ass, which explains its facial expression.
His knee?
Also, is the cat saying it? The speak marker points to the cat on the third frame not the dude on the third or fourth.
She's already what though?
Omae wa mo
It is wrong: should be "You are already", as the emphasis of the sentence is on "are"
https://youtu.be/CkZyZFa5qO0
Yeah but I think it's not a full sentence because she smacks him before he can finish the sentence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou0lU8WMgo