Re: USAGE: Aren't/Amn't
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 2:18 |
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On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:28:57 -0600 Patrick Dunn
<tb0pwd1@...> 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."
My English teacher (Eng 112G: Epics) spent about five minutes during a
period of publically going over excerpts from papers telling us not to
use "they" as a singular - and then used it himself a minute or two
later. :) . Maybe i should've pointed it out to him...
-Stephen (Steg)
"...the Names that can be given are not the true Names..."
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