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• JWBananas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  the car needs washed

  Is there a name/term for this abomination? I’ve only ever heard one person speak in that form (omitting “to be”), and it has haunted me ever since.

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think you’d call this elision. Assume that the phrase is originally “the car needs to be washed” but you cut out “to be”, making it into a shorter form.

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    • JWBananas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Worse, to me, is that there is a perfectly grammatically correct way to be just as brief.

      Wrong:

      The bed sheets need washed.

      Right:

      The bed sheets need washing.

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      • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And for a linguist the question is really whether there are native speakers who consider it correct. Here there are millions who say yes.

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• ValenThyme@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  ‘chest of draws’ was a weird one for me!

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  • Reyali@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But that’s just a ‘bone apple tea’ of “chest of drawers”? It’s not a correct term.

    (I figured surely there’s an actual word for misheard terms being butchered in writing, but a quick search failed me so I went with the colloquial name.)

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    • badgermurphy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There’s “malapropism” that is sort of close, but even that is more like accidentally combining parts of two idioms.

      It was named after a character in a play that always did it.

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