Re: Story - TCOAIW

Kendra wrote:

<<I can't think of an others off the top of my head. You'dn't comes to mind,
but I don't think I've heard many people say it and I'm not sure if it would
sound natural to most people.>>

I just realized I'd say that, but probably wouldn't write it, even though I 
do write with contractions.   It's on the cusp, I think.

<<I tend to be too informal in everything, so I may be a step below the
accepted   level of formality. Even when I'm trying to write formally,
though, I think I'd rarely use (I just wrote youse. agh!) "do not;"
actualyl, I think "does not" is more likely than "do not," but then again,
that may be because Iwould rarely even say "don't" because one should always
avoid personal pronouns in essays, or so say my teachers. :)>>

This is one of the things that really bothers me in the fiction class I'm in. 
  Everyone seems to think that you're not allowed to use contractions, so 
they always write things like "do not", "does not", "would not", "will not", 
"he is", etc.   And it's like, "That ain't English anymore."   I always cross 
out things like "he is" and write "he's" above it when I read them.   And, 
man!   When I get my credential, that's "no personal pronoun" "rule" is going 
to be the first thing to get the boot.

<<Yep. :) I'm not sure how often triple contractions occur. you'dn't've is
probably more like... I don't know how to transliterate
j@.Vd@nth@v , wutthan jud@nth@v
though the last @ is more like the vowel in look/cook/put, though I don't
even have a clue which vowel that is.>>

When I pronounce it, it comes out as ['jMn@].   So, like, "You'dn't've gone 
if he did, would you've?"   Pronounced [jMna gA:n @f hi dI:d, wUdZM @v]   
(Hey, that very last contraction is a neat thing in and of itself, isn't it?  
 It's like I don't want it to be a contraction, but I pronounce it like "of" 
not "have".)

<<I speak really fast English; a lot of my words run together. So I'm 
probably
not representative of my dialect in general. It's still funny to realize
that I do say that. :)>>

Where you from?   If you're from Southern California, you could be a part of 
my growing number of examples of have of the distinct Southern California 
dialect starting to form.   :)   Fun, fun, fun...

-David

"imDeziZejDekp2wilDez ZejDekkinel..."
"You can celebrate anything you want..."
               -John Lennon

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