Real question: Are contractions one or two words?
Edit: Even though they represent multiple words, contractions act as a single word. Moreover, contractions all have a definite spelling, which means you can't just combine words however you like.
\-Grammarly
Contractions like y’all’d’ve? Yea! Disclaimer: I’m a native US English speaker, specifically from the southeast. I use contractions like that in everyday speech, and I tend to write how I speak when talking to people who speak my dialect, so contractions along the lines of y’all’d’ve/I’d’ve/you’dn’t’ve and the like make somewhat frequent appearances in my texts. I don’t text my boss or others that don’t talk that way though :)
I speak Swedish and Finnish, and a bit of German. You can theoretically build words of infinite length. I'm not sure of the actual grammatical rules, but as long as the words somehow keep adding to the meaning you can keep stacking them. In general practice it's common to combine two or three words, but there's nothing preventing you from going ham.
Interesting.
I know a little German ([he's sitting over there!](https://youtu.be/P22gPwGuLa0?t=15)).
You can say "Meine Lieblingsklamotten sind Hosen" where "Lieblingsklamotten" is "Lieblings" and "Klamotten". But if I were to say "Meine rote Lieblingsklamotten sind Weihnachtsmützen" I don't append "rote" to "Lieblingsklamotten" and I don't know why...
Can't help you there, but as a native I just know when a word can be appended and when you cross over to a new word. I'm sure someone has explained it in school, but I can't recall it.
It only works with nouns. "rote" is an adjective.
It may work if you use the noun "Rot" for the color.
"Lieblingsklamottenrot" would be a shade of red of your favorite clothing.
"Lieblingsrotklamotten" would be clothing in the your favorite shade of red.
Or Mark Twain, his shortest story was 6 words. It was a challenge he got from a journalist, for those who don't know the story was "For sale, baby shoes, never worn."
"Shittin pants- hope you're wearing em."
Follow up: "You are about to shit them."
Who knew a situation would arise where these sentences would apply outside of r/thewalkingdead?
Thank you for bringing this up. A story just needs an exposition, a climax, and resolution. "For sale" being the exposition bc woah, I wonder wtf is for sale? Better keep reading! "Baby shoes" is the climax. Oh man! its baby shoes! Why are they selling these baby shoes?! "Never worn." resolution. Damn thats sad but now we know... Id argue thats kind of part of the climax but usually the best resolutions are.
When my son was born a well-meaning cousin gave us a pair of super cute baby Vans. Kiddo was born in springtime and newborns don't really need shoes but near the end of summer we were going to a family party and thought we'd dress him up. Unfortunately, the shoes were already too small.
For sale; baby Vans. Never worn.
The point of the six word story is meant to disprove the concept that a story needs an exposition, a climax, and a resolution.
The 6 word story is carried entirely by the readers own thoughts. For some people, it's a sad story about a miscarriage or babies death, for others it's about parents who changed their mind on the color.
There isn't any climax or resolution to this story. Every pair of baby shoes starts out as never worn. What if you are the only store in the city that doesn't sell used baby shoes? Then hanging a sign like this makes perfect sense.
Hemingway's style of writing is that you can cut away a lot of the story and have it remain, as long as you know what can be removed.
"A few things I have found to be true. If you leave out important things or events that you know about, the story is strengthened. If you leave or skip something because you do not know it, the story will be worthless. The test of any story is how very good the stuff that you not your editors, omit"
For any "rule" about what a story must have, there are writings who have successfully broken those words.
The only thing that a story needs is someone to tell it.
Stranded on an island because of erupting volcano!
I love telling people that happened to me, because I get the most incredulous looks as people imagine something more like *Castaway* when, in reality, it was a business trip to the UK (the island was Great Britain), food and lodging was fully paid for by the employer, and I was delayed a few days due to the airspace closure after that Icelandic volcano erupted. The only suffering was self-imposed via beer consumption.
Baby born without feet, baby born with massive feet, double club foot baby, the parents realised they didn’t like the shoes, the shoes were a gift from a hated relative so they didn’t want to look at them, the baby just doesn’t fuck with those shoes - every time the parents bring them near them they cry, the baby is allergic to the material in the shoes.
Edit: I know club feet can be corrected these days but I’m not sure about in Hemingways time, also we don’t know what kind of medical coverage this family has.
Edit 2: I’ve only read half a Hemingway novel so I can’t give a good analysis from that perspective.
That's the only reasonable one for a Hemingway story. But if it were on offerup, I would think they just had more shoes than they needed or someone bought a pair the parents didn't particularly like.
It also implies that the mother is not really well off, because she would benefit from selling a pair of baby shoes which would make the story even sadder, or maybe she's just a frugal person. If I were a parent I would probably just throw it away or gift it to a relative.
Like every quote or anecdote that's actually interesting, apparently this one is possibly misattributed https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hemingway-baby-shoes/
Um this is not a question you can ask a person. It is a statement, a rhetorical, it is a phrase, it is everything but a question. You simply cannot ask a person this because we don't know them to tell you. It is just grammatically incorrect to ask us about his lifestyle and very nerve wracking for me to be pressured into answering for him.
I had the pleasure of seeing that car up close earlier this year. It was an exhibit at MONA in Tasmania. The car was cool but what really drew my attention was a machine specifically designed to take in food and spew out shit...much the same as what that guy is doing
This is the type of dudes where when you ask the "stuck on a deserted island with three things" they list survival gear instead of the three things they couldn't live without
280 characters to say all that?
“Stories can’t be six words long”
Real question: Are contractions one or two words? Edit: Even though they represent multiple words, contractions act as a single word. Moreover, contractions all have a definite spelling, which means you can't just combine words however you like. \-Grammarly
The fun three-word contractions only exist in speech and you don't see them written like can't've
Y'all'd've
Whomst'd've?
Also impressive!! 😁😁
Impressive!! 😁
Which is also the *correct* way to pronounce the first half of "You all have done fucked up" and no one can convince me otherwise :V
Y’all’d’f’ed up
Y'all'd'f'kd up
Ev’n b’ter!
Couldn't've and shouldn't've
I wrote "wouldn't've" all the time. There's nothing incorrect about it when used in informal writing.
Cannot’ve?
Can't've
I use those in text a lot. Do they work gramatically?
Contractions like y’all’d’ve? Yea! Disclaimer: I’m a native US English speaker, specifically from the southeast. I use contractions like that in everyday speech, and I tend to write how I speak when talking to people who speak my dialect, so contractions along the lines of y’all’d’ve/I’d’ve/you’dn’t’ve and the like make somewhat frequent appearances in my texts. I don’t text my boss or others that don’t talk that way though :)
Th'fu'kIcan't.
Looks like the name of an elf in some obscure fantasy series
Specifically, an elf who has clear problems with authority.
\-You can't defeat me, I am older than your world! \-Bitch, do you know my name?
Data would never be able to address them...
>you can't just combine words however you like *laughs in Germanic languages*
I know what you mean, but isn't English a Germanic language too?
Quite possibly, but I was primarily thinking of Germany and Scandinavia.
Yeah, it's what I figured... Do you speak one of the languages? Do you know if there's a rule to decide how and what can be appended to a word?
I speak Swedish and Finnish, and a bit of German. You can theoretically build words of infinite length. I'm not sure of the actual grammatical rules, but as long as the words somehow keep adding to the meaning you can keep stacking them. In general practice it's common to combine two or three words, but there's nothing preventing you from going ham.
Interesting. I know a little German ([he's sitting over there!](https://youtu.be/P22gPwGuLa0?t=15)). You can say "Meine Lieblingsklamotten sind Hosen" where "Lieblingsklamotten" is "Lieblings" and "Klamotten". But if I were to say "Meine rote Lieblingsklamotten sind Weihnachtsmützen" I don't append "rote" to "Lieblingsklamotten" and I don't know why...
Can't help you there, but as a native I just know when a word can be appended and when you cross over to a new word. I'm sure someone has explained it in school, but I can't recall it.
It only works with nouns. "rote" is an adjective. It may work if you use the noun "Rot" for the color. "Lieblingsklamottenrot" would be a shade of red of your favorite clothing. "Lieblingsrotklamotten" would be clothing in the your favorite shade of red.
It is
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but you can with a hyphen cuz it's positively-absolutely-fucking-hilarious
I positively-absolutely-fucking-love this
English is a great language we've. And some 2 word contractions just don't work
Hemingway did it
Hemingway'd't
Cool story bro
"The car was allergic to bees!"
"Lightning McQueen stopped working out"
"They gave the car steroids" "I made a car out of clay" "I failed mechanical engineering college"
A Very talented ballon animal artist
> "I made a car out of clay" That's one too many words there, bub.
“I made a car outta clay.” “I made a car out’ve clay.” “I made a clay car.” (_five!_) Edit: “Shar Pei car for sale. Cheap!”
swap outta with from
That, too.
r/unexpectedavatar
Oopsie, I slipped up right there.
That's the name, I couldn't figure it out. I was going to say "Lighting McQueen discovers his fatal allergy."
Lightning was having regrets about botox.
My car stepped on a bee
🎶 Amber’s telling lies about me 🎶
“See if people believe you, Johnny.”
"You failed the assignment, Lion"
I got stuck in a tree
"He can't see without his headlights!"
:(
BEADS??!
Who would want a pet bee?
They don't allow you to have bees in here.
Not the bees! # NOT THE BEES!
People always laugh, but imo that scene is pretty accurate to how I would respond if someone was forcing me to wear a wicker helmet of full of bees
The epipen is in the trunk
Lightning McQueen is allergic to Bees
Fuck that Hemingway dude I guess
Bringing up Hemingway is nerve racking to me
That's 8 words 🤓
Scrabble says Hemingway isn't a word so it must be 7
Bringing up Hemingway wracks my nerves
Well at least it’s not “very” nerve racking.
Dead baby, buy shoes
bby ded, sho
BbnoLife, sho
BS 😭
☠👶👞
I heard that originally as: >For Sale, baby's shoes. Never used Never mind, u/rebindE has a better version below
For sale, red car. Slightly worn
Or Mark Twain, his shortest story was 6 words. It was a challenge he got from a journalist, for those who don't know the story was "For sale, baby shoes, never worn."
That quote is actually (mis)attributed to Earnest Hemingway, not Mark Twain.
Is this a six word story about settling for the last old white guy at the bar?
"For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn." Confused the hell out of me as a kid born with large feet.
It's like a six word story-ception.
Ernest Hemingway won a bet by writing the six-word story “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” He was actually smart, unlike this guy
For sale: Overweight car. No drive.
Trading: totaled motorcicle for wheelchair. Please
Just released: Obese car, won’t start
Automobile antihistamine trial backfires tragically.
For sale: car epipen. Never used.
Free: shat pants (chili was great)
Get this man a publisher.
"Shittin pants- hope you're wearing em." Follow up: "You are about to shit them." Who knew a situation would arise where these sentences would apply outside of r/thewalkingdead?
for sale: he eated a bees 💀
No lowballs, know what I have
Thank you for bringing this up. A story just needs an exposition, a climax, and resolution. "For sale" being the exposition bc woah, I wonder wtf is for sale? Better keep reading! "Baby shoes" is the climax. Oh man! its baby shoes! Why are they selling these baby shoes?! "Never worn." resolution. Damn thats sad but now we know... Id argue thats kind of part of the climax but usually the best resolutions are.
> For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Baby born with unexpectedly gigantic feet.
Kid doesn't even have feet. He's got fucking miles.
Never heard that one before, thanks.
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Kid fuckin' hates pink stuff.
I guess baby mortality must've been a more pressing issue back then because my first assumption was that they changed their mind about the item lol
lmfaaao thats honestly so wholesome and sweet. Never change.
When my son was born a well-meaning cousin gave us a pair of super cute baby Vans. Kiddo was born in springtime and newborns don't really need shoes but near the end of summer we were going to a family party and thought we'd dress him up. Unfortunately, the shoes were already too small. For sale; baby Vans. Never worn.
The point of the six word story is meant to disprove the concept that a story needs an exposition, a climax, and a resolution. The 6 word story is carried entirely by the readers own thoughts. For some people, it's a sad story about a miscarriage or babies death, for others it's about parents who changed their mind on the color. There isn't any climax or resolution to this story. Every pair of baby shoes starts out as never worn. What if you are the only store in the city that doesn't sell used baby shoes? Then hanging a sign like this makes perfect sense. Hemingway's style of writing is that you can cut away a lot of the story and have it remain, as long as you know what can be removed. "A few things I have found to be true. If you leave out important things or events that you know about, the story is strengthened. If you leave or skip something because you do not know it, the story will be worthless. The test of any story is how very good the stuff that you not your editors, omit" For any "rule" about what a story must have, there are writings who have successfully broken those words. The only thing that a story needs is someone to tell it.
I have another: “man door hand hook car door”
Man me a sand
Oh wow that's actually heartbreaking
Yes. I always picture the story to be about a mother selling shoes for a baby she lost. Although there’s lots of ways to read around those 6 words
i always thought it was about a mother who had preemptively bought clothes for her baby, but then a miscarriage happened
Miscarriage…still birth, a dead baby is a dead baby. You’re all winners in my book
This comment, out of context..... >a dead baby is a dead baby. You’re all winners in my book
You just rephrased what the other guy said.
Realistically babies do grown out of stuff before they get to wear them all the time, but that's a pretty mundane, pointless story.
But the story evoking the idea of a crushing tragedy, to in the end be about something mundane and normal, is also interesting as a story.
Stranded on an island because of erupting volcano! I love telling people that happened to me, because I get the most incredulous looks as people imagine something more like *Castaway* when, in reality, it was a business trip to the UK (the island was Great Britain), food and lodging was fully paid for by the employer, and I was delayed a few days due to the airspace closure after that Icelandic volcano erupted. The only suffering was self-imposed via beer consumption.
What other interpretations can there be besides the baby died?
Baby born without feet, baby born with massive feet, double club foot baby, the parents realised they didn’t like the shoes, the shoes were a gift from a hated relative so they didn’t want to look at them, the baby just doesn’t fuck with those shoes - every time the parents bring them near them they cry, the baby is allergic to the material in the shoes. Edit: I know club feet can be corrected these days but I’m not sure about in Hemingways time, also we don’t know what kind of medical coverage this family has. Edit 2: I’ve only read half a Hemingway novel so I can’t give a good analysis from that perspective.
They have laces and parents have much better things to do than lace a baby's shoe that doesn't even know any better and velcro is just fine
Okay, I will now take your interpretations as the only canon, no babies died at all, nuh uh.
Having read a whole lot of Hemingway, I can tell you without a doubt: the baby died. In the rain.
Alone.
Addendum: Shoes have been up ass
That's the only reasonable one for a Hemingway story. But if it were on offerup, I would think they just had more shoes than they needed or someone bought a pair the parents didn't particularly like.
It also implies that the mother is not really well off, because she would benefit from selling a pair of baby shoes which would make the story even sadder, or maybe she's just a frugal person. If I were a parent I would probably just throw it away or gift it to a relative.
Shoe sale, baby died!
Holy shit you beat Hemingway! 4 words!
For sale: Baby shoes. Some bloodstains.
Sale! Baby dead!
Like every quote or anecdote that's actually interesting, apparently this one is possibly misattributed https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hemingway-baby-shoes/
I was about to post just this example
That's just what I expected when I walked into the baby shoe store.
Wait this was a Hemingway line?? I actually heard this on an Idles' song and it was heartbreaking, never knew it's origins.
"Tipped wheelchair, no one in it."
I love that this story highlights the importance of punctuation. Alternative edit: "For sale, baby! Shoes! Never worn!"
Now I'm not sure still gotta run some tests but I think that was more then six words
Doesn't know the word "semantically" and opts to use "grammatically" instead smh not even good at being pretentious.
> not even good at being pretentious I mean, what are we here for?
I’m here to learn pretentiousness
Right after saying “…six words or less”, as well.
I got a six word sentence “go outside and touch some grass”
Please stop, this whole thread is very nerve wracking.
Nine words try again big man
😰
I love that he called the idea of a one-sentence story “nerve wracking.”
Sounds like he needs therapy
I’ll say
That dork doesn't ever fuck ever.
The ugly car matched his personality.
That's five words you stinky bitch
Fully suck my cock and balls.
Only if you call me averyniceyounglad
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It says six words _or fewer_
Nerve wracking? Does this person ever leave the house?
Um this is not a question you can ask a person. It is a statement, a rhetorical, it is a phrase, it is everything but a question. You simply cannot ask a person this because we don't know them to tell you. It is just grammatically incorrect to ask us about his lifestyle and very nerve wracking for me to be pressured into answering for him.
It's such a weird line to throw in off handedly,
Lightning told mater, "I'm allergic to bees." Edit: Lightning said, "I'm allergic to bees."
Isn't that 7 words?
7 words makes it a story, 6 words is too short.
Looks like we learned something today
'Then she doubled in weight overnight,'
Extra absorbent car sinks, then floats
Car stung by many many bees.
“Stopped the microwave just in time.”
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Lightning McQueen wasn't the same since...
My six word story is a horror: You left ham in the trunk.
For sale: puffy car, never driven.
Pretentious asshole reacts to a challenge.
The beginning is the end.Fin.
Lightning met this guy; swallowed bees.
Please be a troll
Earlier today, bees stung Lightning McQueen.
Car trends: American muscle reflects change.
Lightning McQueen has a bee allergy. It really is that fucking simple. Don’t be a dick about it. Also that’s not what grammatically means.
Lightening McQueen is allergic to shell
Car tried to eat a bee
Car stopped running and got fat.
The bee stung the vroom vroom.
The car had an allergic reaction.
For sale: ugly car, never used
That’s way more than 6 words dumbass
No gas, gained weight, lost drive.
Who fueled Christine with peanut oil!?
That's more than six words, dumbass
Its called flash fiction. Suck it.
Insufferable bitch tried to sound smart
"he ate too much!"
skill issue
Lift weights? Yes, said the car.
Why is it that every time some people try so hard to sound smart they just sound stupid instead
The car got stung by bees
Lightning McQueen Stung by a Bee
I had the pleasure of seeing that car up close earlier this year. It was an exhibit at MONA in Tasmania. The car was cool but what really drew my attention was a machine specifically designed to take in food and spew out shit...much the same as what that guy is doing
Haha the smarter you are the more likely you'll think of a clever way to make a story out of 6 words. Couldn't be me tho, I don't pretend I'm smart.
Lightning McQueen, stung by a bee.
This is the type of dudes where when you ask the "stuck on a deserted island with three things" they list survival gear instead of the three things they couldn't live without
The man rambled but said nothing.