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Conjunctions in spoken English



 
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Conjunctions in spoken English Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:01 pm  Conjunctions in spoken English
 

In conversational English (spoken), would you find yourself commonly adding a conjunction here?

"she likes cats he hates them"

e.g

Whereas she likes cats he hates them.
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Conjunctions in spoken English Wed Jun 25, 2008 14:39 pm  Conjunctions in spoken English
 

i'd most likely say "She likes cats but/while/and he hates them"

Though "them" would be probably shortened to "em"... and "em" really sounds just like "m".

It ends up sounding like "hates'm" or "hatesum".

(in conversation)
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Conjunctions in spoken English Wed Jun 25, 2008 15:00 pm  Conjunctions in spoken English
 

And here?

that one's blue the other green
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Conjunctions in spoken English Wed Jun 25, 2008 15:02 pm  Conjunctions in spoken English
 

in that case i'd probably insert "is" or just the "z" sound between "other" and "green" -- and likely just a pause (comma, i suppose) between "blue" and "the":

that one's blue.. the other's green
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Conjunctions in spoken English Wed Jun 25, 2008 15:10 pm  Conjunctions in spoken English
 

OK. Thanks.
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Conjunctions in spoken English Wed Jun 25, 2008 15:19 pm  Conjunctions in spoken English
 

it depends on a lot of things:

my audience and how comfortable I am with them, the weather (both outer and inner, as Frost might put it), the conversation's setting, etc.
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Conjunctions in spoken English Wed Jun 25, 2008 17:17 pm  Conjunctions in spoken English
 

prezbucky wrote:
it depends on a lot of things:

my audience and how comfortable I am with them, the weather (both outer and inner, as Frost might put it), the conversation's setting, etc.

So in some weathers, you might find yourself saying "that one's blue the other green" without anything added, right?
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Conjunctions in spoken English Wed Jun 25, 2008 18:16 pm  Conjunctions in spoken English
 

nah, i'd prolly add "is" (or at least the "s" or "z" sound) between "other" and "green"

well think about being lazy, not at all uptight about making sure all parts of speech are there.

Start by saying "other is"

then "other ez"

then just "other'z"

that's what "other is" really ends up sounding like in conversational English (at least spoken by some here in the US)

WHEN, that is, we're laid-back/comfortable and not worried about annunciating properly.
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Conjunctions in spoken English Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:15 am  Conjunctions in spoken English
 

Molly wrote:
In conversational English (spoken), would you find yourself commonly adding a conjunction here?

"she likes cats he hates them"

e.g

Whereas she likes cats he hates them.

Conversational English? Well informally (or even formally, actually), I'd probably say it like that, only being sure to put a pause between "she likes cats" and "he hates them", almost like it's two sentences being said really fast.

"She likes cats, he hates them."
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