Re: USAGE: Aren't/Amn't

tb0pwd1@corn.cso.niu.edu writes:
>*nods*  I even use ain't in front of my class.  Of course, I don't accept
>it in papers. . . but there are plenty of perfectly real words I don't
>accept in papers.  Like the phrase "today's society."
Generally my professors are looking for our thoughts, not our "correct"
(in the prescriptitvist view) of how to speak English. In a paper they are
of course strict, but in class discussions they really don't care much.

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