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Teo  #155179  Fri, 04 Nov 05 04:49 PM

What's it mean?

Is the above sentence acceptable?

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Beemer  #155182  Fri, 04 Nov 05 05:02 PM
Teo, to ask the question is to answer it: 'What's it mean?' means 'What does it mean?'
  
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Philip  #155184  Fri, 04 Nov 05 05:09 PM
 Teo wrote:

What's it mean?

Is the above sentence acceptable?

Thanks a lot for your reply.

In informal (and even formal) speech, it is acceptable.  I wouldn't write it, however, except as a quote from a character in a story.  "does" is not technically included in our list of contractions, except with 'not' > doesn't.
  
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pieanne  #155194  Fri, 04 Nov 05 05:42 PM

I agree with Philip, you can hear it, but it's not grammatically correct. " 's" is not an accepted contraction for "does".

 
  
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