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In my dialect, that would be grammatically incorrect. I've never heard that construction before.

Well, in my dialect, constructions such as "we was", or "ain't" are simply incorrect. Nobody around here would ever use them. They are simply not part of the dialect, no matter what level of education the person has, or social class. "Standard" vs "non-standard" is more about prescriptivism than...

Well, it is not a lexical 'construction', if I take your meaning. It is simply a way to spell the casual pronunciation, and could be used to represent the words, want to , in transcribing any spoken dialect that pronounces it that way. That pronunciation is certainly common in the US.

Randy_Tam wrote: I am only taking Mandarin as a complusory second language credit course, my L1 being Cantonese Chinese, now considered a 'dialect' for no justifiable reasons, as there has never been a clear distinction drawn between a 'dialect' and a 'language': do the 2 not share the very...

O, I thought you were, as your quote is in Chinese. Yes, L(x) is a function indicating whether a language is 'native' or 'foreign' to a person. It is not restricted to Language Acquisition though, as it is widely used in such topics as Language Teaching (see for example, Eric Hawkin's...

Pittsburgh Dialect need x-ed "The car needs washed" "My hair needs cut" "The loan needs moaned" "My house needs painted" Definition: "The car needs washed" = "The car needs to be washed" or "The car needs washing." Origin: This grammatical construction...

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OED The gerund still retains one feature of the verbal noun, namely, that of admitting of a preceding possessive case or possessive pronoun, as in " after John's behaving so strangely ", " upon my readily granting it ". In the literary language this construction is regularly retained with a...

In several American movies I've heard (perhaps I've misunderstood) expressions like "She don't know", "He don't live here". The contexts were quite familiar or informal. I know this must be speaking English, but I would like to know what you think about this. I think it's wonderful. No doubt...

From Merriam Webster's : AIN'T Etymology: contraction of are not 1 : am not : are not : is not 2 : have not : has not 3 : do not : does not : did not -- used in some varieties of Black English Usage: Although widely disapproved as nonstandard and more common in the habitual speech of...