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minus-squarewinkly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·26 days agoSwap beans for meat? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
minus-squareusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·26 days 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-up2·edit-226 days 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-up2·26 days agoYeah English prepositions can be a little weird sometimes like that
minus-squarebandanawearingbanana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·25 days agoThe title is still wrong. The stackexchange post is about the verbs to replace and to exchange not to swap.
minus-squarerf_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 days agoOut of curiosity what’s your native language?
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
The title is still wrong. The stackexchange post is about the verbs to replace and to exchange not to swap.
Out of curiosity what’s your native language?