[ale] GO Windows!!! ;-)
Michael B. Trausch
mike at trausch.us
Wed Jun 30 11:51:15 EDT 2010
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 08:24 -0400, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> I reckon that's plain wrong - Just because "ain't" is in common use it
> ain't proper English. "It is me" may be common but there ain't no
> arguments for it being proper English so there ain't no arguments on
> both sides. Youse is either right or y'all is wrong but you'uns can't
> have it both ways.
>
> (waits for the comments about "ain't no" being a double negative...)
I remember in school being told "Ain't ain't a word and you ain't
supposed to say it"... but then they added it to the normative reference
for the English language and they stopped saying it...
--- Mike
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