The use of contractions is not allowed in any form of Norwegian standard spelling; However, it is quite common to shorten or contract words in spoken language. However, the commonality varies from dialect to dialect and sociolect to sociolect – it depends on the formality, etc. of the framework. Some common and quite drastic contractions found in the Norwegian language are “jakke” for “jeg har ikke”, which means “I don`t have”, and “dække” for “det er ikke”, which means “there is none”. The most commonly used of these contractions – usually composed of two or three words contracted into a single word – contain short, common and often monosyllabic words such as jeg, du, deg, det, har or ikke. The use of the apostrophe (`) is much rarer than in English, but is sometimes used in contractions to show where the letters have been dropped. Other contractions were common in writing until the 17th century, the most common being of + personal and demonstrative pronouns: Destas for de estas (of these, fem.), daquel for aquel (of which, masc.), del for de él (of him), etc.; And the female article before the words that begin with A-: The Alma for the alma, now el alma (the soul). Several sets of demonstrative pronouns appeared in the form of contractions of aquí (here) + pronouns or pronouns + otro/a (others): aqueste, aqueso, estotro, etc. The modern Aquel (which, Masc.) is the only survivor of the first model; The personal pronouns nosotros (us) and vosotros (pl. u) are remnants of the latter. In medieval texts, unaccented words very often appear contracted: todol for todo el (all, masc.), ques for que es (what is); etc.
also with common words, such as d`ome (d`home/d`homme) instead of de ome (home/man), and so on. In most cases, there are no binding spellings for local dialects of German, so the writing is largely left to the authors and their editors. At least with external quotes, they usually pay little attention to the impression than the most commonly pronounced contractions so as not to affect their readability. The use of apostrophes to indicate omissions is a different and much rarer process than in English-language publications. The common fear is that the use of contractions can make writing airy. For most of us, however, this risk is zero. What you gain should be relaxed sincerity – not lightness. [6] The ending ~なければ (-nakereba) can be contracted at ~なきゃ (-nakya) when used to indicate the obligation.
It is often used without aids, e.B. 行かなきゃ(いけない) (ikanakya (ikenai)) “I have to go.” I read letters written around 1650 (and anyone writing during this period will be middle-class or upper-class and well-educated), and they use many contractions: I am, I, we, you, `tis, `twas, `twill, on`t (of this one), t`autre (the other), in`t (inside) and with`t (with). Also does not occur. Oh, contractions. How wonderful they are to use both in everyday language and in writing. The few milliseconds they save you on informal writing add up (or at least we like to think they do), and using contractions in language is much easier and faster than saying the two full words. While some contractions can abuse (like the word “ain`t”) or become a little confusing (I look at you, the abusers of “your” and “you”), they are an essential part of modern communication in our world today. Unfortunately, contractions in scientific articles are not easily accepted.
They are almost despised as childish and immature. However, this is far from the truth. Although most consider contractions to be a fairly modern invention, they are already there before all of us, our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and many generations before they were born. Contrary to popular belief, contractions were not invented in the 20th or 19th century. In fact, to find the origin of contractions, we have to travel back centuries and leave behind our beloved modern English. No, we will not even visit the wonderful subtleties of Middle English; Old English is our goal. The French language has a variety of contractions, similar to English, but obligatory, as in C`est la vie, where it means what + is (“it is”). The formation of these contractions is called elision.
As for today, despite the many years of contractions were taboo in formal writings, as with many grammatical sacred cows, time (from the 1920s) and more recently, the Internet seems to have changed at least some people`s view of their acceptance in writing. contractions of auxiliary, negative and question verbs with is; are used in everyday English by all parts of British society. Although there are some regional variations, the basic principles of contractions and connected language are used by almost everyone all the time. Note: The particles 爰, 焉, 云 and 然 that end in [-j[a/ə]n] behave like the grammatical equivalents of a verb (or coverb), followed by 之 `him; them; it (third-person object)` or a similar demonstrative pronoun in the position of the object. In fact, 于/於 `(is) in; at`, 曰 `to say` and 如 `to look` are never followed by 之 `(third person object)` or 此 `(almost demonstrative)` in pre-Qin texts. Instead, the respective “contractions” 爰/焉, 云, and 然 are always used in their place. Nevertheless, no known object pronoun is phonologically appropriate to serve as a hypothetical pronoun that had undergone contraction. Therefore, many authorities do not consider them to be real contractions. As an alternative explanation for their origin, Pulleyblank suggested that the ending [-n] is derived from a Sino-Tibetan-looking marker that later took on an anaphoric character.
[7] The Coen brothers said such a thing. In an interview with Newsweek,[1] they were asked, “Didn`t people really talk to workers at the time?” and they replied, “We were told that the language and all this formality is true to the way people spoke at that time.” Some linguists consider membership in this syntactic class to be the determining property of English auxiliary verbs. The main difference between this syntactic definition of the “auxiliary verb” and the traditional definition in the section above is that the syntactic definition contains forms of the verb, even if they are simply used as a copular verb (in sentences like I`m Hungry and It Was a Cat) where there is no other accompanied verb. [9] In modern English, auxiliary verbs are distinguished from lexical verbs by NICER properties, as shown in the following table. Most types of writing benefit from the use of contractions. With careful use, prose contractions seem natural and relaxed, making reading more enjoyable. [5] As you may have guessed from all this, contrary to what the latest True Grit movie seems to show, there were contractions long before Mattie and Rooster tried to avenge their father. However, at the time mattie`s character was in her adventure (1880s), contractions in formal writing were absolutely unfavorable. This is a trend that began in earnest at the end of the 18th century. However, as we can see in the works of Mark Twain (1835-1910), among many others who wrote some characters who spoke as real people actually spoke at that time, contractions in everyday language seemed to have been the norm…