Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:22:08 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000116142208.009db2a0@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001160922030.2318-100000@home.astralblue.co m> References: <20000116133434.K3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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At 09:31 16-01-2000 -0800, Eugene M. Kim wrote: >No, they (including me and my friends) are not confused if contractions >aren't used. In almost all English classes (as a second language) they >first teach `you are' then explain briefly about its contracted form >`you're', not the opposite way. FWIW, as a native Slovak speaker who studied English in Slovakia, I was taught to use contractions in spoken English, while the full form in written English. Cheers, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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