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Re: Story - TCOAIW

From:Tristan <kesuari@...>
Date:Thursday, October 10, 2002, 4:51
Nik Taylor wrote:

>>This is a random thought, but are there any contractions with "one?" >> >> >"One's" in the sense of "one is", but I can't think of any examples >right now. >
Probably any you could put onto nouns, I'm guessing. 'One' behaves more as a noun than a pronoun.
>>I don't think I'd make don't >>into do not or it's into it is, unless I was going for emphasis... THAT >>would be the line of "too formal" for me. >> >> >Which is, of course, why Data on ST:TNG never uses contractions. :-) >
I thought it was because they couldn't program him so he'd use them properly... I think there was some episode or another about it? Tristan
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