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[vredes]

could you please explain the meaning and function of as in:
I dont know what them eyes was the windows to and I guess I’d as soon not know.
thank you...

[5jj]

vredes, please try to use capital letters and quotation marks to make your posts easier to understand.

c Could you please explain the meaning and function of "as" in:
I dont know what them eyes was the windows to and I guess I’d as soon not know.

That sentence is an attempt to portray some form of dialect. More natural English might be:

I don't know what those eyes were windows to, and I guess that I would sooner/rather not know.

The speaker had in mind the expression, "The eyes are windows to the soul".

[J&K Tutoring]

Google the phrase eyes are the window to the soul and you will find your answer.

[TheParser]

could you please explain the meaning and function of as in:
I dont know what them eyes was the windows to and I guess I’d as soon not know.
thank you...

ONLY A NON-TEACHER'S OPINION


(1) Thank you for asking about "as," my second favorite word in English.

(2) As Teacher Fivejedjon said, "(just) as soon" = rather, more gladly.

(3) I found this sentence in a book written by a great grammarian named

George O. Curme:

I would just as soon stay at home as go.

(a) So it is my only my guess that your sentence is a short way to say:

...and I guess I would just as soon not know as [I would] know.

In other words: I would more gladly NOT know than I would gladly know.

(P.S. Credit to Professors House and Harman for explaining to us ordinary

speakers that "rather" = gladly.)

[vredes]

Thanks so much....