Re: USAGE: Circumfixes

Hi!

Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> writes:
> On Monday, May 17, 2004, at 06:59 PM, Tamas Racsko wrote:
>
> > On 17 May 2004 Ray Brown <ray.brown@F...> wrote:
> >
> >> Eh?  *"aint do nothing" just ain't English. "ain't doing nothing" does
> >> occur in many varieties of English (the formal equivalent is: am/are/is
> >> not doing anything).
> >
> >   I agree with Mark. P. Line who wrote "I'm not interested in
> > delineating >>good language<<. I'm interested in delineating actual
> > usage."
>
> As it happens, so do I!
I have to add that I used 'good language' in just that way, namely
meaning 'actual usage'.  So Mark understood a different meaning of
'good language', otherwise the statement would be a contradiction in
itself.

> Where have I mentioned "good language"?
:-)

And why was I misunderstood? :-)

**Henrik