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        2 days ago

        It’s a past participle, which is the same as the past perfect form of a verb. For example it would be a broken tool, not a broke tool.

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            10 hours ago

            Yeah for sure, there are cases or dialects where people sub the past tense in for the PP (eg “I don’t want any of your old broke shit.”) But even in those dialects I’d guess the PP is standard more often than not-- I don’t think too many people would accept a “stole car” over a stolen one, or a “blew fuse” instead of blown.

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              8 hours ago

              true, but i don’t think it’s that far off, especially “a stole car” teeters right on the edge of being perfectly fine to my brain in the right social context. Seems very similar to how people having started saying “it’s giving X” rather than “It’s giving X vibes”

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          I won’t remember that honestly, but nice to know briefly before it falls back out of my head.