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Reply Wed 30 Apr, 2008 06:56 am
hey - most of my friends say i don't speak proper english - can i ask does this make sense!!

"you don't be there, sure you don't "-

this should mean - you're never there/not there etc

comments welcome.

thank you

o and this is my 1st post
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dadpad
 
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Reply Wed 30 Apr, 2008 07:01 am
Welcome, non proper English speaking type person.

your friends are indeed correct.
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ciara porter
 
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Reply Wed 30 Apr, 2008 09:34 am
Oh ok - Thank you - But its strange then even after i think about it, it still makes perfect sence and sounds proper english. -

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username
 
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Reply Wed 30 Apr, 2008 09:39 am
What do you think it means?
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Francis
 
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Reply Wed 30 Apr, 2008 09:39 am
ciara porter wrote:
it still makes perfect sence



Does it?
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username
 
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Reply Wed 30 Apr, 2008 09:41 am
Oh, I see you posted what you thought it meant in your first. I don't get any meaning from it at all. Where are you from? Is it dialectical? Are you a native speaker?
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JTT
 
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Reply Wed 30 Apr, 2008 09:24 pm
Re: proper
ciara porter wrote:
hey - most of my friends say i don't speak proper english - can i ask does this make sense!!

"you don't be there, sure you don't "-

this should mean - you're never there/not there etc

comments welcome.

thank you

o and this is my 1st post


It's not Standard English, Ciara, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't mean what you say it means, if you happen to speak a different dialect of English.

Actually, in Standard English, the auxiliary verbs "do/does/don't/doesn't" carry a meaning of the routine, the habitual, what's always or generally the case, so I don't see the meaning as that hard to grasp, in context. But the test is whether this is Standard English or a different dialect.

If you do speak a dialect of English other than standard English, then the only way to determine what's proper are the correctness conditions for your own dialect. None of us here would be able to tell you what those correctness conditions are for your own dialect.
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