http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msdnmagazine/archive/2011/03/10/10139350.aspxI recently wrote a blog entry about the use of contractions in MSDN Magazine . First, I want to thank the many, many responders to that – I’m amazed, and quite happy, that so many of you took the time to tell me what you thought. I love how engaged youen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msdnmagazine/archive/2011/03/10/10139350.aspx#10148677Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:41:27 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10148677Franck Fibleuil<p>I think there is an issue that has not been considered so far: the all too frequent grammatical errors whereby conjugated verbs in contracted forms are used instead of possessive pronouns.</p> <p>The &quot;your&quot; becoming &quot;you&#39;re&quot;, the &quot;its&quot; making way for &quot;it&#39;s&quot;, &quot;their&quot; brutally abandoned in favour of &quot;they&#39;re&quot;, all contributing to crippling the meaning of the text and making it far less pleasant to read.</p> <p>It is hard to predict how the pattern of grammatical horrors would change in the face of a &quot;no contractions&quot; policy.</p> <p>Surely, some confusion could arise where people holding forms like &quot;you&#39;re&quot; to be possessive pronouns will wonder why such a common grammatical tool (pronouns) is banned from MSDN. Maybe others are not entirely clear on what is meant by a contraction, and will carry on murdering the language regardless.</p> <p>In any case, as stated before by some commentators of the previous blog entry, it is a let-down not to use formal language in formal documents, so maybe the way forward is to be contractions-happy in online blogs, but contractions-savvy in the magazine and MSDN library.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10148677" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msdnmagazine/archive/2011/03/10/10139350.aspx#10139457Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:17:52 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10139457Michael Paterson<p>Long live contractions!</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10139457" width="1" height="1">