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Re: USAGE: Circumfixes

From:Tamás Racskó <tracsko@...>
Date:Thursday, May 20, 2004, 10:14
On 20 May 2004 Joe <joe@W...> (et al.) wrote:

> 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].
Many thanks for the explanation. I'm really handicapped in English, therefore I wasn't able to realize that the discussion is about the actual form of the verb "do". According to the above, please correct my original posting as "ain't ...ing nothing".