Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cadovax!bob From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: I'm right, aren't I? Message-ID: <358@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 16:40:15 EST Article-I.D.: cadovax.358 Posted: Fri Jan 11 16:40:15 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 03:56:36 EST Organization: Contel CADO Lines: 23 > I actually use "Aren't I?". I only use "Am I not?" when I want to > sound pompous. > -- > Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam When do you want to sound pompous? :-) Maybe if enough people used "Am I not?" instead of "Aren't I?" it wouldn't sound so pompous after a while." I avoid both phrases. (I don't like to sound pompous and I don't like to sound stupid.) They're just rhetorical tags anyway. From the following three sentences, I'd probably pick the last one: I'm only human, aren't I? I'm only human, am I not? I'm only human, right? -- Bob Kaplan {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!bob "Some things never change, no matter how much they stay the same."