SPUG: Software to expand contractions?

[Stuart Poulin]

's is also a contraction for "has".
i..e "It's been proven"
 
"He's" could be "He is" or "He has" depending on context.
 
I'd say keep the contractions in - less words to read.
 


Tim Maher <tim at consultix-inc.com> wrote:
Dudes,

I'm getting complaints from some early reviewers of my book
about all the "contractions" I'm using in my writing!
So last night I set out to write a Perl script to make changes
like the following:

That's => That is
He's => He is
They're => They are
We're => We are

Then I realized that the 's ending usually needs replacement by
"is", so I tried

"'s" => ' is'


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