Re: OT: contractions
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 30, 2003, 6:45 |
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> > You probably has point here. According to the OECD statistics I've seen,
> > Americans after twelve years of schooling have among the worst commands
>of the
> > written form of their mother language among developed countries.
>
>Except that the ban on forms like "they're, usually" is part of the
>spoken language (the formal written language doesn't allow contractions
True, but I interpreted his lament of people assuming he's American to be
general, not limited specifically to the one example "They're, usually".
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