Comment on Ah, Beans

winkly@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Interesting 🤔

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    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah English prepositions can be a little weird sometimes like that

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• rf_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Out of curiosity what’s your native language?

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  • rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 It seems quite outdated at least where I live in terms of common usage

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