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On 13 May 2001, at 11:48, Scott Chase wrote:
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> >From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
> >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> >Subject: RE: Information
> >Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 00:02:53 -0700
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> >Wade wrote:
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> ><<Look, I totally agree that _anything_ that _anyone_ has _ever_ said
> >at _any_ time is _fiction_- and thus opinion is a great deal of it,
> >and that the best thing that anyone could ever say would also be open
> >to opinion, but the _best way to use a word_ ain't, and never was, a
> >matter of _opinion_. It has always and shall ever more remain, a
> >matter of consensus.>>
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> >What's the consensus on the use of the word "ain't"?
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> It's a highly regarded word here in the South. Y'all is also a staple
> word as in "Hey y'all, we ain't got no more beer." Consensus has it
> that these words are here to stay. Ivy leaguers might have a different
> take on whether these words belong in a person's vocabulary (or
> idiolect?), but they ain't gonna purge us of the sacred slang.
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It would thouroughly discombobulate southerners to even so much
as contemplate losing their special jargon; they'd have conniption
fits if such attempts were made.
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