Timeline for Can I contract "you is" to "you's"? [duplicate]
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| Nov 22, 2022 at 17:28 | comment | added | davidbak | Was my link to a video clip showing the hardest of the hard-core Bronx (New York City) mobsters saying "youse" to a bunch of tough bikers not obviously a joke? Sorry! | |
| Nov 22, 2022 at 17:11 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of When is it ok to create a contraction of words followed by “s”? | |
| Nov 22, 2022 at 16:41 | comment | added | JimmyJames | @davidbak mcalex is right. "Youse" is basically equivalent to "y'all". "Loving youse" would imply some sort of polyamorous situation. | |
| Nov 22, 2022 at 16:33 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | 'Loving you's no hassle' - poetry is not dead after all! | |
| Nov 22, 2022 at 16:19 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 22, 2022 at 15:23 | comment | added | Andrew T. | The title of this question successfully tricked me into thinking about the 2nd-person pronoun instead of a noun phrase ending with "you" :) | |
| Nov 22, 2022 at 14:47 | comment | added | davidbak | @mcalex - try telling that to any of the guys in that video, if youse dare. | |
| Nov 22, 2022 at 7:15 | comment | added | mcalex | @davidbak, no, youse is the plural, not the contraction. | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 23:57 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @tchrist That's correct the PAE construction requires weak stress on the auxiliary which prevents contractions. | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 22:17 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @Araucaria-Nothereanymore. You can’t ‘contract’ (weaken) it as the last word in the sentence. Telling (you is not / you’s not / you isn’t) easy but showing you is. <-- That one at the end cannot be weakened. No more so than can be I’m not hungry but Jim is., or even just plain Jim is. | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 19:49 | answer | added | Nosajimiki | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 19:24 | answer | added | CCTO | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 17:14 | comment | added | ermanen | Making bread's no hassle. | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 16:16 | comment | added | bubbleking | Regardless of what the debate comes to, I would say writing a poem is definitely a time when you can use poetic license. | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 16:15 | comment | added | davidbak | I believe the spelling you're looking for is "youse" (link rated R for excessive violence, be aware) | |
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| Nov 21, 2022 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1594571335744729089 | ||
| Nov 21, 2022 at 1:57 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 19 | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 1:19 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | Yes, the rules of the grammar mean that you can 'contract' is with the Subject. In your sentence the Subject is the phrase "Loving you", and therefore we see/hear "Loving you's ..." The fact that the Subject ends with the word "you" isn't a problem. | |
| S Nov 21, 2022 at 1:13 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Nov 21, 2022 at 1:13 | history | asked | wncslao | CC BY-SA 4.0 |