i hate the word "aint"

How do you hat someone? Flog them with your fedora?

How do you hat someone? Flog them with your fedora?

"Ain't" is a great word. It should be added to the dictionary.

"Ya'll" is another one. And so is "fixin' to."

See ya'll later, I'm fixin' to click "submit."

What is more annoying is that the word AIN'T nearly always leads to a double negative.

There ain't no logic in it.........................

The language used by the working class has often lagged behind that of the "ruling" class, because of illiteracy, and because for most of history, workers had little or no leisure to persue literacy.

Interesting story except that it isn't true. The language used by any dialect of English is perfectly grammatical. This notion, put forth by Setanta is a common one but it is simply wrong.




Therefore, the settlers in the "back country" of the American colonies spoke what was very nearly Elizabethan English, while the merchants and "gentlemen farmers" of the monied and propertied classes had intellectually and linguistically entered the Augustan age of English culture.

Another myth.

Quote:

"There's a town in Appalachia that speaks pure Elizabethan English."

There isn't. All languages, everywhere, are constantly changing. Some areas speak more conservative dialects, but we know of no case where people speak exactly as their ancestors spoke centuries ago.

Of course, ancient languages are sometimes revived; biblical Hebrew has been revived (with many modifications) in modern Israel; and there's a village in India in which Sanskrit is being taught as an everyday language. But these are conscious revivals of languages which have otherwise died out in everyday use, not survivals of living languages.

http://www.zompist.com/lang16.html#elizamyth

Additionally, verb conjugations were only loosely recognized--this can be seen among poor people in the United States in our times who may say "we was" rather than "we were." So "air" for "are" gets used in the singular and plural, and in all three persons.

Every speaker of every dialect conforms fastidiously to the rules of their dialect. Verb conjugations are part and parcel of those rules.

Quote:

Example 1: ain't
"an't (early Mod Eng [ænt]) for am (are is) not is apparently of late 17th-century origin; the variant ain't occurs about a century later... [at about this time, due to two sound changes in aren't, æ > a and loss of /r/, the two became homophones and got confused]. Now the form aren't I has gained ground among those who consider ain't a linguistic mortal sin. Although ain't has fallen victim to a series of schoolteachers' crusades, ... [it was frequently used at the time by very highly educated, cultivated people]... Despite its current reputation as a shibboleth of uneducated speech, ain't is still used by many cultivated speakers in informal circumstances."
(p. 203) [This would be me -- SG] [Especially the "cultivated" part]

http://www.uoregon.edu/~spike/ling290/badEnglish.html

What is more annoying is that the word AIN'T nearly always leads to a double negative.

There ain't no logic in it.........................

one of my favorite lines from "sling blade"

It ain't got no gas in it!





Man, that one has it all!
Ain't, double negatives, using got instead of have....

I'm fixin' to tell y'all thisun' here is a masterpiece of the 'merican lang-wich.

i hate the word "aint"

how is it spelled anyways? with an apostrophe? a'int? or ain't? i think the second choice..
o well i dont care..

if i use the word its only like once a year.. either to mimic, or just for fun..

but othewise.. i hate the word

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P.S. The apostraphe comes between the N and the T to replace the O

I dont like the word either. You used another word I particularly dislike anyways. Its anyway NO 'S'!!!