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Data's Contractions

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Has anyone compiled a list of every contraction Data used? I'm not having much luck with Google.

I stumbled on the following while looking up the source for a different response (see below)...

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Data#Use_of_contractions
(contents may be incomplete but Memory Alpha definitely has one started)

Most ridiculous moment: In 'Datalore', the episode that establishes the whole 'can't talk in contractions' shtick (indeed the plot hinges on it), Picard asks Data how he is.
Response- "I'm fine".

Was it not true that Spiner and Rob Bowman came up with that ending with a deliberate contraction? This, of course, was back when nobody thought the show would last more than a year - not just because of the behind-the-scenes turmoil in getting scripts out to begin with (so, so much for ironclad character profiles), but also noting all the other "the new ____" and "____ the next generation" shows that had been attempted. Of which "The New Monkees" even bested TNG at times. :wtf:
 
Holo-Tomalak: "That says a lot more about you than it does our mind probes!"
In retrospect, it there a more hypocritical episode than Hollow Pursuits?

Riker never tried to consciously avoid "real life" using Minuet as a fantasy to the extent it impeded his functioning as a crew member, like Barclay. So I don't really see the hypocrisy.

Sorry for going off a tangent :)
 
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