Nik Taylor wrote:
> "=?win-1250?Q?Tamás_Racskó?=" wrote:
>
>> (If it's not English, in what language does Eric Clapton sing his
>>song "Ain't nobody's business if I do"..?)
>
>
> Eh? That's not the phrase "ain't do nothing". It uses "ain't" and a
> double negative (neither of which Ray Brown was contesting), but it
> doesn't use "ain't" followed by the base form "do".
In that example, "ain't" and "do" aren't even in the same clause. It's
"(It) ain't nobody's business" with the condition "If I do (something)".