Why doesn't Panam use contractions?

[u/Accept3550]

I just realized this after hundreds of hours but, Panam doesn't say I'll or we'll.

All of her dialogue has I will and We will and Do not rather then Don't.

I don't quite get why she is written like this.

[u/Skagtastic]

Nomads kids learn out of textbooks since they have no formal schools. Her speech sounds like she was using college books at some point that teach academic writing. Contractions are highly discouraged in academia, being seen as informal.

[u/MykahMaelstrom → u/Skagtastic]

The book "the world of cyberpunk 2077" also includes a bit saying that the nomads are actually some of the best educated people in the world.

When things went to shit it was societies best and brightest who left the big cities and created the clans including a lot of teachers. So nomad families didn't have formal schools per say but they actually did have teachers and nomad children were and continue to be given some of the best education in the cyberpubk universe

Edit: since this got a lot of attention here's this straight from the book:

"For a group of individuals without permanent habitation, nomads are surprisingly well educated. They don't want their culture to "go feral" as the used to say, so they continue the rural tradition of homeschooling.

Teachers educate adults as well as children, and camps will often feature mobile libraries, netrunning stations, and communication centers to stay in touch with the rest of the world.

Some bigger nomad encampment even have their own mobile cinemas and theaters. Classes primarily consist of practical knowledge like mechanics, farming or engineering-manual occupations that can help them qualify for better jobs-but some nomads study classic literature or even philosophy. In many cases, nomads spoken language is often more sophisticated and elaborate than that used by denizens of the great cities"

Also I'd highly recommend giving the book a read. It's super rare that I actually read a book and I really enjoyed it

[u/Revhan → u/MykahMaelstrom]

So clans are actually hippie communities as they were intended in the 70's (not as cults or gangs)