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Re: USAGE: Circumfixes

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 19, 2004, 13:26
Mark J. Reed wrote:

>RB> Where have I mentioned "good language"? > >Joe> For me, it was an inherent statement in your argument. I do hear >Joe> _vernacular_ Anglophones saying "ain't do nothing". If they use it, >Joe> it have to be English. > >No, you have misinterpreted Ray's comment for the third time. >He was not prescribing. He was saying that "ain't do nothing" does not, >in his experience, occur in *any* variety of English, no matter how >vernacular or idiomatic or nonstandard or whatever. > >
'twasn't me who said that. I'd just like to point that out.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>