Re: USAGE: Circumfixes

=?win-1250?Q?Tamás_Racskó?= wrote:

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>>>*"ain't do nothing" does not occur in any variety of English<<.
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>>Where have I mentioned "good language"?
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>  For me, it was an inherent statement in your argument. I do hear
>_vernacular_ Anglophones saying "ain't do nothing". If they use it,
>it have to be English. Assuming this, the word "English" in your
>statement >>*"aint do nothing" just ain't English<< means "part of
>the set of idioms I can accept as English" for me. Thus, in my
>apprehension, you've divided English into an acceptable and a non-
>acceptable part, i.e. into "good language" and "bad language".
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>  (If it's not English, in what language does Eric Clapton sing his
>song "Ain't nobody's business if I do"..?)
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No, that's not what he meant.  He meant that he has never heard the
words 'ain't do nothing' in any kind of English.  And neither have I.
Around my area, the equivalent would be 'ain't doing nothing'[En? duIn
nVfiN] or 'ain't done nothing'[En? dVn nVfiN].  But John informs us that
it occurs in AAVE.  I can accept that.