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Re: Contractions
Posted By: unipeg, on host 207.115.63.18
Date: Saturday, July 17, 1999, at 14:47:18
In Reply To: Contractions posted by Darien on Saturday, July 17, 1999, at 11:50:11:

> > I anm't (I invented that alternative contraction)
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> Well... the contraction "amn't" (am not) has been in use since the thirteenth century, at least, though it has dropped out of common usage lately, having been adapted to the more user-friendly "ain't" and then attacked by first-grade teachers until it dropped completely from sight.
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> Dar "Do you believe that?" ien

Arrrg... all the things 1st grade teachers teach you that end up having to be untaught.... you can't add negative numbers. you can't divide by a number larger than the one being divided. you can't take the square root of a negative. arrg. of course, my first grade teacher didn't teach me anything, but that's another story...

uni"i? what is this i you speak of?"peg

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