I am getting rather angry with the word "ain't"...

[anonymouschocoholic]

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There's nothing wrong with changing text to fit to a person's speech style.
As long as they're fully punctuated to what could be assumed as correct..
Which 'ain't' is.
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Allows you to see a person, not a wall of text.

I'm also starting to find speech imperfections quite endearing in real speech.
Anyone ever see Firefly?
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(I guess you would have to have seen it to get me there..)

True, words like 'ain't' can add to characters. It may not be correct, and it can get really annoying, but it just fits some people, like in Firefly.

Oh, and for the record, I love Firefly.  

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Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound

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The word 'ain't' is a word and besides most people from the south like to use the word 'ain't' because it's part of their herritage and honestly, I don't see what all this fuss is about just because someone gets ticked off at people for expressing their herritage through speach and grammer. Some of our greatest comedians use the word 'ain't' and no one complains.
Examples:
Jeff Foxworthy
Larry The Cable Guy
Bill Engvall
Ron White
e.t.c.

The Blue Collar Comedy Tour people are hacks. They keep reusing stale old stories and never come up with anything new anymore. They sicken me.

They use those 'stale old stories' and tell them to people who haven't heard them and personaly they are one of many comedians i like but lets not wander too much away from the subject here.

But that gets so boring. They never come up with new material. If people like a show, they can find older recordings of the comedian on their own.

Ok but the last Blue Collar Comedy Tour had already came and gone, and besides Comedy Central is airing a new Bill Engvall comedy sometime in Febuary.
Now That we settled that can we go back to subject of the word 'ain't'?
And also we ain't talkin` about their comedy skits,
we are talkin` about their grammar.

 

[Wezurii]

"ain't" is a word in the dictionary...it's a "slang term"...and yes...it does bother me  

[turtles rock]

The word "isn't" should be used rather than using "ain't."

"Ain't" sounds so uneducated and unrefined.  

[The Man who was Thursday]

turtles rock

The word "isn't" should be used rather than using "ain't."

"Ain't" sounds so uneducated and unrefined.

And "I isn't" sounds so much better, yeah?  

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Ezra Pound

turtles rock

The word "isn't" should be used rather than using "ain't."

"Ain't" sounds so uneducated and unrefined.

And "I isn't" sounds so much better, yeah?

oh...burn!
XD
O.o;;

 

[americananimefan]

Ezra Pound

turtles rock

The word "isn't" should be used rather than using "ain't."

"Ain't" sounds so uneducated and unrefined.

And "I isn't" sounds so much better, yeah?

That's when you use "I am not".  

[The Man who was Thursday]

americananimefan

Ezra Pound

turtles rock

The word "isn't" should be used rather than using "ain't."

"Ain't" sounds so uneducated and unrefined.

And "I isn't" sounds so much better, yeah?

That's when you use "I am not".

I am the single most important person in existence, linguistically speaking. Why shouldn't I get a contraction for that, when everybody else does?  

[americananimefan]

Sentence A - "I ain't stupid."
Sentence B - "I am not stupid."
I think Sentence B sounds far more intelligent.  

[The Man who was Thursday]

americananimefan

Sentence A - "I ain't stupid."
Sentence B - "I am not stupid."
I think Sentence B sounds far more intelligent.

Only because you've been taught for all your life that "ain't" isn't correct.  

[americananimefan]

I've never been taught that. I know people who use it. It is just annoying.  

[The Man who was Thursday]

americananimefan

I've never been taught that. I know people who use it. It is just annoying.

Whether or not you were actually TAUGHT it, you were taught it. Society as a whole considers "ain't" to be improper; thus, you think it is.

:/  

[americananimefan]

I suppose you may be right. It just sounds weird and people due it to purposly annoy me.