The myth of black capitalism - eviltoast
  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    I had to read the second post twice to understand what it’s saying due to the non-standard grammar. But I’m a foreign speaker.

    I’m asking an honest question out of curiosity: Was this easily legible to you?

    • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works
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      Yes, it was very clear (native speaker here). Something like this is more commonly spoken than written, so I can see why it might be confusing. If your experiencing with English is more formal (via education, reading, etc) vs talking to a whole bunch of different people, that would explain it.

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      I’m a native English speaker and had no issue… but I come across (or hear) contractions like “ain’t” often enough that it barely registers as being non-standard… just much less formal, really. Some punctuation might’ve helped you here.

    • Take_your_zync
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      42 minutes ago

      The main disconnect is they contracted “is it” into “it’s” when “it’s” is normal a posessive like that is mine, e.g. it’s mine. Aka “the fuck is it going to do” or “the fuck’s it going to do” would have been correct. At least I think so as a native speaker but someone with more knowledge on grammar might have more insight.

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      Was this easily legible to you?

      Yes, very easily.

      English doesn’t have one standard grammar, but yeah this was pretty easy to understand for me.