That's interesting about the yo. It reminded me of a comment that my 4 1/2 year old daughter made the other day, "I'm a smart girl, amn't I?". I corrected her, saying that she should say "aren't I". But when I thought about it, even though that's the way we say it, it really isn't grammatically correct, but it's the way it's evolved through everyday usage. "Are" is supposed to be conjugated with "you", not "I". And without the contraction, the sentence is grammatically correct: "I'm a smart girl, am I not?". So "I'm a smart girl, aren't I" isn't technically grammatically correct, though we hear that conjugation all the time. After this thought process, I un-corrected her (I guess that would really be dis-corrected, if either were a word, since I can't undo the knowledge of the correction completely!).
So perhaps one day soon, we'll be using "amn't" as well! ;-) And really, why on earth wasn't a contraction formed from that when the contractions were evolving...probably cause we were already using "aren't" for those instances. Courtney Jordan ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
