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dimi056
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Relevance of contractions

Has anyone a thought about why McCarthy doesn't use apostrophes in his contraction all throughout the book?
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Re: Relevance of contractions



dimi056 wrote:
Has anyone a thought about why McCarthy doesn't use apostrophes in his contraction all throughout the book?




McCarthy is notorious for his lack of punctuation. Check out the punctuation segment from the recent Orpah interview (see link).

http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/road/interview/road_interview_main.jhtml
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