I can't figure out why the certain things?

[svetlana14]

Does the caller say "I can't figure out why the certain things..."? (00:03) [

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[jutfrank]

Yeh, I can't figure out why there's certain things you can't figure out, like ...

 

[svetlana14]

Yeh, I can't figure out why there's certain things you can't figure out, like ...

Is it correct to say "there's" instead of "there are"?

 

[probus]

Grammatically "there's" is incorrect, of course. But native speakers (including me) use it very frequently when strictly speaking we should use "there are".