Re: OT: contractions

> > 1. people often miskey things
>
>But miskeyings does not normally create outright grammatical errors.
True, but one does occassionally see sentences where it is obvious that
their author switched mid-keying how s/he was contrsucting the sentence.

>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.
As someone else pointed out, this might be true of others with their native
tongues, but from the inside, it certaonly seems true.

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