Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 1, 2003, 8:45 |
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Muke Tever wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:33:43 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
> wrote:
> > Indeed. At the very least dropping the apostrophe from
> > "y'all" would spare us from the horrible "ya'll", which I see
> > far too often. :)
>
> I think the apostophro.. ... apostrophe is _supposed_ to be dropped for
> the contraction <yall're>. (I think there's a rule in English that
> prohibits multiple apostrophes in a word, which is why Lewis Carroll's
> <ca'n't> looks so weird--he explains it as the <n't> is for <not>, so
> where does the <n> from <can> go?)
Well, who said the <n> isn't from <can> and the apostrophe doesn't show
the missing < no>? My problem with apostrophes is what I could never
understand why we but the apostrophe where the missing vowel went, but not
where the missing space went. Took me a while to get it thre ight way
around.
> And <ya'll> isnt horrible when used properly, viz. for what ya'll do when
> building contractions with ya.
Yeah, if <ya'll> is you (pl), then what's you (sing., unstressed) + (fut)?
--
Tristan.
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