On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:38 PM Markus Scherer <markus....@gmail.com> wrote:
> "don’t" is a contraction of two words, it is not one word. > But as he points out, it's not a contraction of don and t; it is, at best, a contraction of do and n't. It's eliding, not punctuating. In the comments, he also brings up the examples of "Don’t you mind?" being okay but not *"Do not you mind?", and "fo’c’sle". > You can't use simple regular expressions to find word boundaries. Who uses _simple_ regular expressions? You can't use any code to reliably find word boundaries in English, and that's a problem.
