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From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan)
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Subject: I'm right, aren't I?
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 16:40:15 EST
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> 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."