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Old 08-22-2010, 12:34 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
... it's generally not considered good writing style to use them in written English, ...
I agree, but it's not obvious (at least to me) why that should be the case.

I hadn't thought about it before, but SameOldStory raises an interesting question - unfortunately I dunno the answer.
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