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[Robot_Teacher]

Spell checkers say it's incorrect, but Wictionary says yes it's indeed a colloquial contraction. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there%27re

I've always used it and knew it must be a part of the English language as I couldn't be inventing things. Peoplelator, fatilator, and robotanator are my latest invented words. Peoplelators are inclined conveyor belts in Emart stores. Fatilator is that machine you put a belt around your waist that shakes the excess RAM out of you and robotanators are robot making drones who don't have a life as they work 7 days a week and recharge on the sojuvinator 7 nights a week.

Since, there're is casual as in being colloquial, can it be used in professional writing such as posting on Daves, letters to the editor, and any reports as well as resumes?

I know this is such a dumb geeky question to be asking on a Friday night, but I'm a geeky 'bot all alone on moon base K.

[John_ESL_White]

You can use it on Dave's, the rest of the internet, while teaching Korean, and while pursuing your on-line master's or even Ph.D. You can not use it in a physical university classroom in the United States. Other countries may vary.

I like "procrasturbation". It's when you put things you need to do off and masterbate instead.

[jajdude]

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Would never use it myself, in writing, certainly nothing formal, and doubt it ever gets used in academic work,

it looks wrong and crappy

so, there you're and there you've it. What's it? no idear.

[poet13]

I teach students that written and spoken English are two different languages. That is, there are things we would say but never write, and vice versa. When we do write those things, we are usually reporting something said.

[crazy_arcade]

[losing_touch]

[Robot_Teacher]

[RACETRAITOR]

As somebody who's run across it professionally, no, it's not correct unless you're transcribing verbal speech. That said, it's at least as acceptable as shiait like "restaraunt" or "I could care less" which you see on this site all the time.

[Sector7G]

[Robot_Teacher]

Yes, it can sound like, "therror," but it can also sound like, "there are."

[tzechuk]

*I could care less* REALLY gets on my nerve! Grrr.. I hate it when people write that, and yet, apparently, it is now an acceptable alternative.

[Sector7G]

[Harpeau]

Jinro Soju, Ooroosa minerals and Power Aid got together and invented the SOJUVINATOR!! - Now you can blackout and just keep going!!

[Ruthdes]

oh oh! My vote for my pet-hate non-word (well two votes)

IRREGARDLESS

Arggh! This isn't a word! Use regardless or irrespective! This is an unnecessary mixture of two totally acceptable words that adds nothing to the English language. But guess what's an acceptable word on Facebook Scrabble?!

CONVERSATE

I have colleagues who use this. The verb is "converse". But hell, just use "talk" for god's sake you tosser. Thankfully this isn't an acceptable word on Scrabble (which has become my de facto dictionary).

[kimchi_pizza]