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| Jul 13, 2023 at 18:22 | comment | added | ruakh | @JohnLawler: I think you may have posted your comment in the wrong place? I don't think the use of real as an adverb is an instance of conversational deletion; even if we regard it as deletion of -ly, it doesn't meet the "sentence initial position" requirement. | |
| Jul 13, 2023 at 17:17 | comment | added | John Lawler | This is known as "Conversational Deletion" and it's very common in informal, intimate talk. Anything predictable at the beginning of an utterance (like I have a or do you have time for a here) gets deleted; because it's predictable, it doesn't need to be said. Most stuff like this is fixed phrases, complementizers, auxiliaries, prepositions, and other nuts-n-bolts rubble from constructions. Anything written is ambiguous, but speech (and dialog in writing) uses it well. | |
| Jul 13, 2023 at 14:32 | history | edited | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 29, 2012 at 8:08 | vote | accept | Vorac | ||
| Jun 28, 2012 at 16:22 | comment | added | choster | Oxford is compelled to add chiefly North American. | |
| Jun 28, 2012 at 16:08 | history | answered | ruakh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |