• threelonmusketeers
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      210 months ago

      I’ve

      I suppose that is a technically correct contraction of “I have”, but it looks so strange.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        That’s because it isn’t.

        (No, I won’t go into a discussion how language changes and things that used to be mistakes are no fine and yaddayadda. In today’s standard English you cannot contract ‘I have’ if ‘have’ is not an auxiliary verb.)

        Note that the have verb is not contracted in writing when it is the main verb in a sentence and means “to possess.”

        https://editorsmanual.com/articles/types-of-contractions/

    • @ChillDude69
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      10 months ago

      Do toilet poltergeists stalk you and turn normal chairs into toilets, like in those commercials? Or are those, like, not an entirely accurate depiction of the condition?