Timeline for What is the difference between "’ll" and "will"?
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| Oct 11, 2010 at 9:54 | vote | accept | Bakhtiyor | ||
| Aug 13, 2010 at 17:37 | comment | added | Alan Hogue | Sure. If you want your prose to sound stilted and unnatural, by all means avoid contractions. :) | |
| Aug 12, 2010 at 4:46 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | @Alan Hogue: Well, robots do not use contractions. :-) So you can avoid contractions to give your language a quaint and unnatural (hence, less informal!) feel, in principle. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 17:09 | comment | added | Alan Hogue | That's not true. Contractions are used in all kinds of writing, no matter how formal. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 16:36 | comment | added | Anonymous | I just know that contractions aren't appropriate for formal writing, I always use them when I email to my boss. Thanks for your nice answer. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 14:13 | history | answered | mipadi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |