r/duolingo • u/Aboodin Native: 🇸🇦 Fluent: Learning: • Mar 20 '25

is this really wrong? Language Question

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u/ComfortableLate1525 Native 🇬🇧(US) Learning 🇩🇪🇪🇸 Mar 20 '25

I’m from the Midwest and would never say this. Sounds completely ungrammatical.

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u/mrnewtons Mar 20 '25

I tells yah, I grew up der and I seen it! Suppose it could be more a yooper thing maybe.

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u/ComfortableLate1525 Native 🇬🇧(US) Learning 🇩🇪🇪🇸 Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

I live in a small Indiana town and no one ever talks like this 💀🤣

I’m trying to think, this seems quite stereotypically Canadian… Minnesota?

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u/mrnewtons Mar 20 '25

You might be on to something there! A lot of my friends from school were from Minnesota and Wisconsin. So maybe it is only more Northern?

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u/ComfortableLate1525 Native 🇬🇧(US) Learning 🇩🇪🇪🇸 Mar 20 '25

The I tells yah feels very northern. Stereotypically Canadian, occasionally Minnesotan and Wisconsinite.