Re: USAGE: Circumfixes

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".