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minus-squarewinkly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·3 hours agoSwap beans for meat? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
minus-squareusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 hours ago“for” usually means the first thing is replacing the second. If it said “with” than it’d go the other way https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/23360/substitute-x-for-y
minus-squarewinkly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-23 hours agoInteresting 🤔 I guess that makes sense because if I were paying for beans with meat, that means I’m trading meat for beans but “trading for” means the other way so I’m still kinda confused 😵💫 I’ll trade you my English skills for a sac of beans 🫘
minus-squareusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 hours agoYeah English prepositions can be a little weird sometimes like that
Swap beans for meat? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
“for” usually means the first thing is replacing the second. If it said “with” than it’d go the other way
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/23360/substitute-x-for-y
Interesting 🤔
I guess that makes sense because if I were paying for beans with meat, that means I’m trading meat for beans but “trading for” means the other way so I’m still kinda confused 😵💫
I’ll trade you my English skills for a sac of beans 🫘
Yeah English prepositions can be a little weird sometimes like that