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minus-squareusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 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
“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