Ben Bucksch wrote: > Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > >> Its not the system is bad. Its just different. >> > Some things are objectively bad. "I don't have no car" (for "I have no > car") is just logically wrong. And "Your out of luck" instead of "You're > out of luck" is, by the definition of the language, wrong. I admit that > the latter error is easy to make. But the former is, I think, a genuine > American symptom.
Actually, logically, it makes as much sense as anything. It's just a different grammer... maybe inspired by the french je ne crois pas... where "ne" and "pas" together creates a negation of "crois" (believe, think or something like that). Mind you, in french, the "pas" can be substituted for a number of different negation, like "rien" for "never". Mind you, Americans as I know them don't speak their own language, as defined by their intellectuals, correctly in many respects. The same goes for Danes BTW. For instance, when I visited America some years ago the phrase "The bell ring" was often used for "The bell rang." Somewhat confusing to a poor dane :o) regards, Esben, who is still winderfully off-topic :O)
