Timeline for Is there a term for removing contractions?
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| Nov 6, 2018 at 8:37 | comment | added | Fabien Snauwaert | "Expanding the contractions" sounds like the best fit to describe it. | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 3:37 | answer | added | Hugh | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 3:32 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2015 at 0:42 | comment | added | deadrat | I believe this is part of their plan -- once they remove all English contractions, they will conquer us with ease. I, for one, welcome our new Martian overlords. Do you not? | |
| Aug 10, 2015 at 23:00 | comment | added | Graffito | Opposite to words contraction, we may think to disjunction. But, I am not really sure that it will be understood in that sense. | |
| Aug 10, 2015 at 22:37 | comment | added | Dan Bron | The opposite of contraction is expansion. But beware that removing all contractions in English will make you sound like a Martian. | |
| Aug 10, 2015 at 22:37 | comment | added | John Lawler | No, there isn't. Removing contractions is about as terse as one can get. | |
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| Aug 10, 2015 at 22:33 | history | asked | Wesley Smith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |