lund
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Post by lund on Jan 16, 2020 15:31:00 GMT -5
The "take and" construction exists in colloquial Swedish and Norwegian too.
It often conveys a message of "get going" or starting doing whatever the sentence is about.
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imawino
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Post by imawino on Jan 16, 2020 15:52:28 GMT -5
What the heck is up with the elimination of two little words, “to be”? For example, “something needs done” instead of “something needs to be done”. I had never heard this until I married DH and it drives me crazy! He just told me the cat needs fed. ACK! FWIW, I was born and raised in east WI, and he was born and raised in NWPA. All of his siblings use this word elimination as well. This is absolutely a Pennsylvania thing, and I hate it so much! Also, the tendency of people from Pennsylvania to pronounce it Pennsavania sends me into a rage spiral. (they somehow find the missing "L" if there is ever a need to mention Dauphin county, which promptly becomes Dolphin) But I find a Jamaican friend's pronunciation of the middle "t" in Connecticut positively adorable. So what can you do? I have issues.
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