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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “of the sudden” (1570) actually predates “of a sudden” (Shakespeare) according to my OED as squinted at through the nifty magnifying glass. But it’s been considered obsolete for a long time despite having all of a sudden experienced a resurgence.

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  • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can’t we just embrace adverbification and agree to write “suddenly”?

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    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      all of the suddenly?

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    • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No! For made up reasons I don’t understand adverbs are verboten!

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If “all of the sudden” becomes standard I will definitely do this.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nothing wrong with “suddenly.” It’s just that sometimes you want to say “all of a sudden.” The extra time helps build the suspense. “Suddenly” is more sudden in that it just jumps in there. With “all of a sudden,” the subject isn’t ready but the listeners are.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People aren’t saying it because they’re language scholars, it’s because they misheard the proper modern usage. So it goes for many language shifts.

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• macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only if you allow the ignorant to remain uncorrected.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Erin: “All of the sudden, I was awake.”

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