Alexander Koryagin:
AK> Can we put "I will" instead of "I shall" -- all people
AK> do it by putting the shortening "'ll" after "I".
No, many careful writes abstain from this practice, and so
do I.
AK> Everybody understand. So we can. ;)
This utilitarian approach encourages negligient, slipshod
language, furthering its degeneration, which in turn
degrades our thinking and expression faculties by way of a
vicious loop of positive feedback. No, thanks.
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