Contractions do make you sound like it's your first language

[Peter Sturgeon <prsturgeon -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

And robots, foreign villains, etc.
> 
> I still say it's a good idea. Example: If you ever saw Star Trek:
> Next 
> Generation, and listened to Data (the android), you would have
> noticed 
> that he never used contractions. It resulted in something that was
> very 
> android-like speech. Correct, but not human.
> 
> My 2¢ (that's 4 now ...)

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