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[–] MoonrootWitch@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)
  1. The dress is from Torrid, I found it at a thrift store.
  2. Thank you, I really loved today’s outfit too.
  3. I’m Mexican, English isn’t my first language, so I might have gotten that contraction a bit off 🤔
[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As for 3, in my part of the world (Canada) we only contract "I have" into "I've" when the "have" is grammatical. So "I've been thinking", "I've seen you before", and "I've got that at home". But when it's the main verb we usually don't contract it, so "I have a new dress", "I have to go to court", "I have something to say", etc.

It's understandable, though, and I've probably even seen it in poetry or lyrics, but it isn't typical.

Oh, and it's not impossible to use a structure like "I've not seen it", but again it has a very formal and dramatic feeling, whereas "I haven't see it" feels much more natural to me.

Hot dress 😉

[–] Domi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Irish people use the contraction when the "have" is possessive. "I've a new dress" is a perfectly usual thing to say in Ireland.

[–] MoonrootWitch@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

That’s really interesting, I really like learning about languages and those kinds of differences. And thank you for the compliment on the dress!

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

That tracks, because the place I've seen a lot of it ( 've ) was in the English subtitles for El Ministerio Del Tiempo, translating from Spanish. Fun show btw.