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Re: USAGE: Circumfixes

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 19, 2004, 19:43
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)".