>Helen-
>
>There is a tension between the speakers fluent speech
>and the readers potentially faultering reading of
>something in non-standard spelling. I don't know that
>there is a solution to this. Non-standard spelling has
>a way of meaning that the speaker is not 'One of us'
>your effort to leave out apostrophe to signify the
>speaker is speaking their own language however this
>implies that the speaker/writer can't spell or is
>illiterate, now I don't get the impression that this
>is what you want to signify but I don't what the
>solution is.
Ah, but one might, & many do, choose not to use the apostrophe simply
because it doesnt seem necessary, especially in many verbs. I think of
Robert Duncan, George Bowering, others... in their poetry anyway...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Confessional verse
an exercise in the liar's paradox:
compulsion is my theme
he said, four times.
Mark Cochrane
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