What *is* it? You save one space. When I write "can not" it get underlined and the suggestion is to replace it with cannot -- but why?
The Death of Contractions
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What *is* it? You save one space. When I write "can not" it get underlined and the suggestion is to replace it with cannot -- but why?
I live with the comma fairy. Everything I write is scrutinized.
I love the experiment about not using contractions when speaking to our wives. Of course, this assumes I could get a word in edgewise.
We should have a "write any way you wish" day on TDPRI. Contractions/no contractions. Cool kid text-speak. Write like you're the Queen. Make grammar mistakes without the embarrassment of correction. Spell words any which way.
Oh wait... that's every day.
Oh wait... that's every day.
^^^^This. We have an entire generation out there who communicate primarily by typing on cellphones with their thumbs. Anything that requires proper capitalization or punctuation is way too much bother - and when the crux of your message is what you had for lunch, what time you want to meet for margaritas, or your astute opinion based on something you read online ... well, I suppose it's appropriate. And most folks can decipher this fairly easily, even elderly flatulants such as us. Plus since I write for a living, it keeps me in business. Nobody will pay you for texting an article with your thumbs minus capitalization, punctuation, grammar, etc. Not yet, anyway.
^^^^This. We have an entire generation out there who communicate primarily by typing on cellphones with their thumbs. Anything that requires proper capitalization or punctuation is way too much bother - and when the crux of your message is what you had for lunch, what time you want to meet for margaritas, or your astute opinion based on something you read online ... well, I suppose it's appropriate. And most folks can decipher this fairly easily, even elderly flatulants such as us. Plus since I write for a living, it keeps me in business. Nobody will pay you for texting an article with your thumbs minus capitalization, punctuation, grammar, etc. Not yet, anyway.
I dunno. From the poor grammar, missed words, and spelling mistakes I see in articles all over the place on-line, I have to assume this is coming, if not already here.
TC6969
Friend of Leo's
I get a kick out of those who think they can cram two words together and it's a contraction.
Noone is a classic example that I see quite often!
Noone is a classic example that I see quite often!
loopfinding
Friend of Leo's
yeah. it was more common for me to omit them in the past on the phone, but now the phone does everything. though some predictive things get it wrong and change an input "youre" to a "your," or something like that, and it pisses me off. on a QWERTY keyboard the apostrophe is right there on my right hand pinky, so for me it's plenty easy to include. but i don't really care either way about others omitting it in informal communication.
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Manual Slim
Friend of Leo's
I finally stopped posting pictures of Peter when I see that. Not enough people get it. Or maybe they’re not as easily entertained as I am.
I don't know this, but I suspect that the word "none" developed as a contracted form of "not one" or "no one", or both. In spoken form we don't notice the apostrophes until it's too late.
Lots of rhythm in German speaking too, precision, crisp articulation. Not every speaker is precise but the overall cadence is mathy.
I've noted how the same piece of European Classical music performed by say a German orchestra, an Italian orchestra, a French orchestra and an English orchestra; the German orchestra has a recognizable feel that seems related to the spoken word and maybe cultural precision, as opposed to French and Italian feel. English I'm not going to comment on and I may have said too much already!!!
Watch "Idiocracy." It's where all this is eventually going. Funny, when you watch most sci-fi movies, all the people in the future in the spaceships with the flying cars and ray guns and such are all intelligent and articulate. In reality, it's those too ignorant to practice birth control and their descendants who will comprise the bulk of the population (it's started already). And since we live in a "democracy" where everything that can fog a mirror gets to vote ...
Also, "everyone" versus "every one" -- folks often get the usage between the two wrong.
Manual Slim
Friend of Leo's
Yeah, baby! Now we’re really getting somewhere.
I yell at spellcheck on devices where it is enabled to change spellings as opposed to underline and suggest.
Don't YOU yell at spellcheck???
I'm still angry about letting women vote.
Bless your hearts TDPRI'ers, each and every one!
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