Languages and cultures self-repair the way ecosystems do, by selective replication of novel components that manage to find a job.
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You can see intelligent echoes of this in modern stigmatized vernacular forms: "I done chopped the wood" is more precise than the standard.
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@sarahdoingthing Wait. How is that more precise than "I'm done chopping the wood"? - 5 more replies
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Demonstratives got to be perfectivity-specifiers the same way fruit flies got to be beautiful in Hawaii: empty niche nobody else was using
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@sarahdoingthing I feel like "I've chopped the wood" carries a lot of the meaning you're looking for here. -
@admittedlyhuman yes because of the definite article but done or all is clearer
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