Timeline for Google translate says that both sentences are correct, so which one should I use?
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| Jul 1, 2021 at 13:55 | comment | added | Colin Fine | I tried to check "If I'd have known" on the GloWbE corpus (which requires you to separate "I'd" into two words "I" and "'d", and it reports an error. | |
| Jul 1, 2021 at 11:39 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | John Lawler doesn't explicitly say he personally uses the contracted form /ɪfaydə'lɔstyu/, but I think that's implied in the linked answer. And he says he "unpacks" that to If I had lost you - completely ignoring the schwa in the phonetic transcription. While the rest of us argue about whether that schwa represents have, John seems to just dismiss it as some kind of "artefact". | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 17:45 | comment | added | Colin Fine | @FumbleFingers: I would no more use if I'd have known than I would if I would have known. I acknowledge that other people use both, though. Not got time at present to check the corpus, but I'll do so later if I remember. | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 17:05 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | One of the comments under Prof John Lawler's answer to my question about this on ELU says I'm in the Midwestern US as well, and I hear people say "If you would have…" pretty frequently, with the word "would" fully pronounced: /ˌɪfjəˈwʊdə/. I kinda doubt the poster there thinks of himself as somehow "substandard" in terms of class or education! :) | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 16:32 | comment | added | Lambie | If + would like that is definitely hoi polloi. Sorry, but true. It's like all the people in my town who say She don't and He don't. I don't judge them for it at all. Some of them are charming. But as a listener, it tells me something about their class and educational background. People forget how HUGE the US is, so it's easy to think (from the media, etc.) that it's more widespread than, say, an equivalent class and education difference in the UK. | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 15:55 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Does your corpus search distinguish (or allow you to distinguish) between If I would have known... and the contracted form If I'd have known...? I have no problem at all with the contracted version (which to me only becomes "non-standard" when I "unpack" I'd to I had rather than I would). | |
| Jun 26, 2021 at 15:58 | history | answered | Colin Fine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |