Re: CHAT: Contractions (was Re: Re: Austin, Utopia,
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 24, 1999, 19:28 |
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> Nik Taylor scripsit:
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> > I think people like to avoid all those apostrophes, as in
> > {won't}, not {wo'n't} or {shan't} not {sha'n't}
I dunno... I kinda see some of them as irregularities (like
<won't> and, phonologically, /dount/), and so trying to
apply some sort of orthographical regularity on them all
like that seems a bit artificial. Personally, if I were creating
the orthography, I'd take these into account.
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