Everyone must vote! For SCIENCE!

[fancycwabs]

[Poll #1348831]

I'd noticed that I'd been using the "aprostophe d" construction to the point where I'd never use "hadn't" or "wouldn't." Is this just a personal affectation?

Comments

[resk.livejournal.com]

I don't understand this poll.

[seph.livejournal.com]

Me neither.

[seph.livejournal.com]

Oh wait. I get it now.

[resk.livejournal.com]

Plz to exprain.

[seph.livejournal.com]

Would you say "I hadn't noticed" or "I'd not noticed" as a contraction for "I had not noticed"?

I.e., would you contract "I had" or "had not"?

[resk.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I was all hung up on what this had to do with the poll:

When the contractions are ten minutes apart, head to the hospital

I see what he was doing there now.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Well, this certainly explains why I'd not received any Valentines. Clearly I'm a freak of nature.

[resk.livejournal.com]

I don't understand this comment.

Maybe seph will exprain 2 me.

[m0thy.livejournal.com]

Science wasn't on the ballot.

[redtheblue.livejournal.com]

You forgot "Why would I give a shit about that?"

And this reminds me of the only time I ever laughed at Bevis and Butthead. Bevis imagined himself to be pregnant, and mistook intestinal pain for labor pains. "CONTRAPTIONS! CONTRAPTIONS!"

[meedja.livejournal.com]

I'm the only person I know who has the habit of using 2 apostrophes in the same word. I'd've said it before only you'd've thought I was dumb.

[dimloep-suum.livejournal.com]

I do that occasionally.

[count-shrimpula.livejournal.com]

I also do that. As far as the poll, I voted both, but I lean more toward "I hadn't noticed". I like "I'd not noticed" and the like becuase it sounds more formal, and it gives a certain interesting flair when used judiciously.