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English is weird
pwhodges:
More common, certainly - though we still look askance at extreme examples like Shakespeare's "But me no buts".
Cornelius:
It sounds interesting. A cursory search doesn't turn up a study on this particular mechanism. I'll have another look on my day off next week.
Case:
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Do the Italians, or Spaniards, get bent out of shape about it, or is it just the French? :mrgreen:
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In my personal, biased, and not at all representative experience? The Italians don't deign to notice(*), and Spaniards will bend you out of shape. :mrgreen:
Getting over your lost Empire is seen as a sign of maturity amongst European societies (**).
(*) Researchers exempted here - they have pretty decent English.
(**) Commenting on the Brexit-debacle, the Spanish (?) foreign secretary recently observed that 'there are only two kinds of countries in Europe: Small ones, and those that don't yet know they are small'
Tova:
I’ve got a weird question. I’m ... uh... I’m gunna go ahead and ask it.
Why are Americans so fond of this little mannerism? “I’m gunna go ahead and do something “ rather than simply “I’m gunna do something.” It seems especially popular on YouTube, but I’ve seen it elsewhere (including here).
There’s nothing wrong with it, but it seems redundant and a little odd to my ear.
Thrillho:
I say that too, which I think I got from America. It is a bit redundant but has implications to the sentence, because it implies giving yourself permission.
I have primarily used it to re-assert my own agency/authority or, much more likely, because it is a fun and amusing thing to say.
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