Now, here is the deal, I may laugh about this now, but I do it too. Why? Because I'm affected by culture just like you. If you go too much against the current, meaning that you speak entirely different from everyone around you, you basically stop being an effective communicator and thus shoot yourself in the foot a little bit(maybe with a bb gun).
I guess someone could say that it comes down to education, and maybe that argument is somewhat valid, but I don't know if its entirely true. After all, educated people tend to know when to turn the switch off, when it's time to speak properly and when they can relax and be a little silly.
Here is the interesting thought to ponder regarding these cultural kinks: What if they also determine the overall dominant outlook of a culture? - It's certainly possible, Why not? - If a particular language has been massaged for a lack of a better term around negative phrase fabrication, even to say positive things, then... What does that say about the Culture?
"Yoo bro... that ride there is stupid... super sick man.... "
No fluent english speaker would get offended by such a compliment, yet there is a complete absence of positive adjectives here. So, everyone seems to understand the redefined context.
When it comes to double negatives, it even becomes more hilarious, at least to me it does. I've actually sat there thinking to myself if sometimes, mistakenly so, somebody actually landed in both both logical feet on the ground. I imagine it being like one of those dismounting moves from the olympics, but in the logical/grammatical spectrum of things. Two back flips, the stretching out of the legs, the arms standing out with the chest proudly protruding.... and POOF!! TADA...
"Hey listen yall... don't nobody go nowhere... ok?"
Just because its monday, and people tend to be cranky, let's laugh a bit... give me your best double, triple, quadruple negative, or just a ridiculous saying you heard once. Let's kick off monday ninja style.
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I take offence at the fact you think I might only have a tendancy to be cranky on Monday. Its just be ome Tuesday here in 'the land of smiles', and I'm still grumpy.......
However, look at this bizarre song title and lyric from Alicia Keys;
If I ain't got you with me baby
So nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thing
If I ain't got you with me baby
The whole lyric is a nonsense, it don't mean noffing !
hahahahhahahah yes!! forgot about that song
a recent phenomena, and one I hope disappears. while comical, I feel it's connected to a popularization of the dumbing down of (usa) americans, where ignorance and lack of education are to an extent almost glorified. to me this seems a silly way to go about promoting cultural dexterity.
ps, "Here is the interesting thought to ... What if they also determine the overall dominate outlook of a culture?" I believe the word dominate should be dominant.
good catch.. i did banana peel that one! ;)
My Meno — as I read this whole post, I was trying to figure out if you purposely used that word that isnt a real word in your title just to prove a point. I’m still not sure! 🤪
But, you do know, right? That the addition of ‘ir’ in front of ‘regardless’ is simply incorrect? Soooo many people say it anyway, likely because they’ve heard others doing so and assume it’s accurate.
It’s the same as the widespread butchering of the word ‘orient’ or ‘oriented’ — so many people say ‘orientate’ or ‘orientated’, likely because their brains lazily extrapolate that from the word ‘orientation’. Interestingly, it’s been so often used, it’s now been added to the dictionary as a ’needless variant’.
....like nails on chalkboard in my brain. 😬
YUSS!!! you caught it hahahhahahhaha i was hoping someone would.. that is a word they use here in florida... it always made me go.. whataaa.. but people use it left and right.
They double negative "regardless" hhahahaha
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I can't not agree with you lol.
I majored in English and I have studied a few other languages (sadly, I never could learn to speak them well) and I noticed spoken language is a lot more fluid. Saying "I ain't got nothing" wouldn't fly in college paper but, like your example, no one who knows the language would be confused if someone said it.
"After all, educated people tend to know when to turn the switch off, when it's time to speak properly and when they can relax and be a little silly. "
I agree with this. I think some of it also aids in communication. If I went around talking like I would in a class with my stoner frineds they would laugh at me and, while they would underatand me, they would think that I am being strange for being unnecessarily formal. That being the case, I don't say, "hello good sirs, can I interest you in partaking in this cannabis cigarette?" Instead, I might say "hey, you guys want to burn this doobie?" That is not exactly accurate. I am not sure that "doobie" is even a real noun and describing smoking it as "burning" it isn't the best way to phrase the act but makeing the statement in that way feels more natural for the situation.