• quindraco@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s weird even thinking of “will” as a verb. It involves no action, unlike every other verb.

    “I will.” is like the sentence “You dolt.” Neither contains any action. I’m willing to accept linguists think of the word as a verb, but I’m also deeply confused why they would.

    • Still@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      you dolt is a shortening of you are a dolt are is the verb and ar is implied in the shortened version