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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

123.0. "double contractions" by HYDRA::THALLER () Thu Dec 05 1985 16:58

Besides looking and sounding awkward, is there anything wrong with double
contractions?  eg

we are not ==>  we'ren't

he is not ==> he'sn't

opinions?
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123.1AJAX::TOPAZThu Dec 05 1985 19:104
       No, there's nothing wrong with them, except that you can pronounce
       them only if you sneeze at the same time.
       
       --Don
123.2PENNSY::CANTORFri Dec 06 1985 00:274
I wouldn't've thought they'd've been allowed.

Dave C.
(Sometimes I write the way I talk.)
123.3BEING::POSTPISCHILFri Dec 06 1985 14:228
Re .2:

> I wouldn't've thought they'd've been allowed.

I'dn't've thought that, either.


				-- edp
123.4PENNSY::CANTORSat Dec 07 1985 23:051
touche.
123.5VOGON::GOODENOUGHWed Dec 11 1985 05:417
"we are not" is contracted as "we aren't" in the South of England, and
"we're not" in the North. "we're not" is also used in the South, where the
emphasis is on not.

Just in case you're travelling..  :-)

Jeff.
123.6JANUS::FRASERFri Jan 03 1986 05:255
	With reference to the title of this note:- 

		"But the doctor assured me I'mn't having twins!".

123.7SUMMIT::NOBLEMon Jan 06 1986 12:474
    It looks more like you've all contracted some new disease.
    
    - chuck
    
123.8APTECH::RSTONEThu Jan 23 1986 14:082
As l'ng as you're up to it, whyn't s'mply s'bst't'te all int'rn'l v'w'ls
w'th ap'str'ph's?
123.92CHARS::SZETOFri Jan 24 1986 22:371
  'n tht cs, why hv vwls?
123.10ERIE::CANTORSat Jan 25 1986 18:306
Wh ndd?  W shd mt ll th vwls, ncldng ''.
                                     ^ N cs y cn't rd t, tht's th 25th ltr.
                                            ^ T's sd hr s a cnsnnt.
                                                          ^ Ps! N xcptn!

Dv C.
123.11TOPDOC::SLOANETue May 06 1986 17:214
    I laughed so hard I almost fell out of the fo'c's'le.
    
    BS