Timeline for Using "there're" to abbreviate "there are" [duplicate]
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 4, 2012 at 1:22 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Jan 15, 2012 at 16:46 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 15, 2012 at 16:46 | history | closed |
Lynn James Waldby - jwpat7 user11550 Mitch Jon Purdy |
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| Jan 15, 2012 at 16:37 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Job: It's not so much a case of saving typing as conveying the appropriate "register". Which IMHO doesn't make much difference in the case of your "I do not understand...", but I think this comment of mine would come across as rather stilted if I'd introduced it with "It is not..." | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 15:40 | comment | added | Job | I do not understand the point of having contractions in the English language at all. They add flavor but they make no practical sense. Just how much longer is "there are" vs "there're"? One freaking character! This is the case with most of the contractions, with exceptions such as won't, which does save 3 ... characters. Wow! | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 14:00 | vote | accept | kettlepot | ||
| Jan 15, 2012 at 9:15 | answer | added | Barrie England | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 7:24 | answer | added | Gnawme | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 2:31 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @jwpat7: Erm... is that what you meant to type? Anyway, the first of Theta30's links is about the number/gender agreement in say, "There's some towels in the cupboard". And the second one is a rather odd thing wondering if all instances of are can be reduced to 're - which frankly I think should be deleted, not just closed. This one appears to be simply about transcription, and I think it should stand. | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 2:27 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/158374806264360960 | ||
| Jan 15, 2012 at 2:10 | comment | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | @FumbleFingers - Likewise, I don't know who has voted so far. However, reading both questions it seems to me that this one asks if there're is ok to say, and that one asks if there're is ok to say. | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 1:37 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Theta30: I don't know if it was you who voted to close as a dup of that earlier question - but whoever it was, I disagree. This question isn't asking whether it's okay to use there's instead of there're. It's asking whether it's okay to use there're instead or there are - and rightly or wrongly I'm assuming he says it like that anyway, and simply wants to know if it's okay to reflect this in the written form. | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 1:02 | answer | added | John Lawler | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 0:58 | history | edited | Alenanno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 15, 2012 at 0:57 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 0:43 | history | asked | kettlepot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |