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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Also it's just Aldi, not Aldi's hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For some reason, pluralization of singular brands is a thing depending on your dialect of English. I won’t state the regions because I don’t wanna accidentally narrow down where someone lives. Although I guess referencing Aldi already does that a bit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's actually not plural, but rather possessive.

It's an example (I think) of a snowclone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You’re definitely right about the possessive thing. I’m not sure about the snow clone. I always thought of it like they were treating the name of the store like the last name of the family who owns it. So it’s like a shortening of, “we’re going down to the Aldi’s store.” As if you’d walk in and Mr. Aldi would be behind the counter.

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