You know how to read english. The first thing I said was "Stop these threads". If you are uncertain of what that exactly means, I'll quickly explain.
Stop crying about the english language. No one cares.
The second part "your language is bad because it doesn't sound like english. sounds like you making sounds"
Whatever your native language is, its bad compared to English. I don't care if English is the worst existing language, yours is worse. When you speak your native language you sound like a duck trying to speak English.
And, finally the third part "now, stop"
This one relates to the very first comment. Stop with these retarded threads. There are extremely annoying and lame. Find something else to do with your spare time. Instead of trying to pick apart the english language, and acting like you are a higher being.
Shut up.
Infracted for trolling.
Last edited by Taurenburger; 2013-05-07 at 03:50 PM.
It's slang, mostly southern, but also occurs in the north (New England rednecks are so much like deep south southerners it isn't even funny . . . minus the accent of course.) It's grammatically incorrect and, as you've stated, doesn't make sense if you interpret it literally but it's just the way some people talk.
Ain't is a recent addition to some dictionaries and I'm not even sure how much it is accepted as a word.
Putin khuliyo
Songs are expressions of emotion, often times mirroring the culture where they come from. A great example would be this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7axvIOdwy0
The references to literature, history, and other cultures are extremely dense but wrapped around a southern hip-hop drawl that by itself would be anything but "intelligent".
I don't know why they wouldn't just say "I haven't got any money". "aint got no" seems like an American thing, in England they would say "aint got any".
Language is absolutely nothing like mathematics.
I primarily taught technical writing, so I'm afraid the slang wasn't present in the work. I just find it odd that it's somehow considered uneducated to use slag that "doesn't make sense". It's a cultural quirk.
It's just a cultural thing but it doesn't make it acceptable, it's still incorrect and stupid. In the UK it's a lot of the young black people in London won't say "ask" but will pronounce it "arks" as if it's spelt "aks". Inb4 "zomg stereotyping/profiling u can't do that" yes, yes I can do that and I will do that because it's neither of them. You wouldn't look at the amount of people with face piercings and say that white people have a discriminatory problem against it because people from pacific islands have it but westerners don't.
I felt the need to contribute the following joke to the discussion, even though it's not going to get you any further
A linguistics professor is giving a lecture. He says: "In English, a double negative like 'I can't not go' is a positive. But in some other languages, like Russian, a double negative is an emphatic negative. However, there is no language where a double positive is a negative."
"Yeah, sure," someone shouts from the back row.
I definitely didn't say English was the best language. The entire point to my post was, "Why complain to a bunch of nerds on the internet about a language that has been in existence, for who cares how long."
I think people fail to realize, there is no fixing it. There is no changing it. Shut up and deal with it. If you want to complain about the english language, be like the 5% of the world population that don't use it. Easy.
A Yorkshire saying drives me nuts. Well, one of many they spout
"Same difference".
/raaaaaaaaage
Last edited by Badpaladin; 2013-05-07 at 04:03 PM.
Yeah but noone uses it to mean that. To paraphrase David Mitchell, on a scale of caring, that phrase is used to infer that you are at 0. Now you cannot give a negative care, so it is not possible that you "could care less" if you are intending to say that you are at the lowest possible level. You now have anecdotal and graphical evidence that it's Couldn't rather than Could, rather than just the rules of the English language.
If it was used to say that you cared a small bit then fine but noone uses it in that way. At all.
EDIT: Oh yeah that's another one - you infer, I imply. Not a double negative just an example of sloppiness.