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From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net>
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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


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