My apologies, since this post actually contains a swear word, id...t, which I’m going to censor. But this came up with a test reader of a text I’m working on:
You id...t actually find her fascinating, don’t you?
A test reader thought this sounded weird and unusual. So I went to research uses by others, and indeed, almost nobody says this!
This confuses me, since I find tons of uses of:
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This id...t actually is... -
These id...ts actually are... -
You id...ts actually are....
…but not for this singular form as a direct address.
Is there something grammatically wrong with it? Is it valid, but for some reason people prefer You id...t, you actually are... anyway?
Thank you so much!! The examples really helped. And sorry for censoring over-eagerly, I wanted to avoid having my first post of all things littered with that word I guess 😆
No worries about the censoring - better safe than sorry. And I’m glad my reply helped!