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I liked to die when I read some of these.
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Dear Faldage: Seriously, I trhough "like" in that bit of country dialecct was not a verb.
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I liked to die when I read some of these.
Good to hear you're over it.
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Not seriously though: In reply to:
I liked to die when I read some of these.
More Southern would be:
"I liked to have died when I read some of these."
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And the Irrelevant Argument of the Year Award goes to:
Dub'Dub for
More Southern would be:
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I think a) sounds like a product of the Department of Redundancy Department. B) and c) sound as if they mean the same and say it much more clearly than a), where the speaker seems to be stuck in a time warp. Maybe in several at once.
I thought it was LIKE to have died, not LIKED.
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The d of liked gets assimilated into the t of to. It's usually used speaking of something that happened in the past. ¿Qué no?
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Yeah, I always think of it as past tense, but I just never hear the "d". But I almost never get to hear that expression any more, living in hyperurbanized Atlanta. Land sakes, I reckon I should high tail it down to Griffin. I'm fixin to forget my idiom.
Wait a minute. I'm a midwesterner.
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I just never hear the "d"
Well, yeah. It's assimilated into the to. Try pronouncing each with all the distinctitude of your typical rural southerner and tell me how different they sound.
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In reply to:
It's assimilated into the to.
Another Faldagian expression to drop at the next cocktail party.
By the way, Faldage, if it's so irrelevant, why's you and birdseed talking about it?
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