Re: CHAT: which's

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:44:48 -0600 Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
writes:
> Nope.  To me, that sounds English.  I'm sure there are probably
> other
> dialects outside of England that do that, and probably dialects in
> England that don't, but "English" is the association I have when I
> hear
> a form like "I've not".  Strange that "have" should forbid that when
> the
> forms of "be" do permit it, "I'm not", "You're not", etc.  (Indeed,
> "I'm
> not" is the only possible negation of "I'm", altho "You aren't" is,
> of
> course, a common variant of "you're not" - I think "you're not" is
> more
> common, but "you aren't" is far from rare - altho, again, forms
> like *"you'ren't" or *"I'mn't" are completely impossible)
> --
-

I remember saying "I amn't" once.  Everyone looked at me funny, but they
understood what i meant.  As they say, the more linguistics you know, the
worse you speak your native language... ;-)


-Stephen (Steg)
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