Comment on Ah, Beans

winkly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “for” usually means the first thing is replacing the second. If it said “with” than it’d go the other way

  english.stackexchange.com/…/substitute-x-for-y

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  • winkly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Interesting 🤔

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    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah English prepositions can be a little weird sometimes like that

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  • bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The title is still wrong. The stackexchange post is about the verbs to replace and to exchange not to swap.

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• rf_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Out of curiosity what’s your native language?

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  • rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mine is English and I generally find myself to be quite knowledgeable about most grammar but this is not one I was familiar with. I even asked other English speakers I live with and they didn’t hear about this rule either. It seems quite outdated at least where I live in terms of common usage

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    • stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s no rule here. Note “usually means” in their comment. This is an ambiguous phrase for which some people have a convention but is inherently weak. Anyone writing a headline should have better instincts about usage and style.

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