I don't hear it used often by white people (unless used deliberately, for example in songs), but African Americans seem to use it more regularly in everyday informal speech, so it depends on the variety of English you want to consider.

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1) Your interpretation of the sentence is correct. A comma would help make the sentence easier to read, and would probably be more correct. However, in spoken English, many people would not pause where the comma should go. Leaving the comma out in

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How did the Balkans manage to be peaceful for years, then dissolve into ethnic hatred and murder? Because politicians appealed ... anyone from that area. So ask yourself: Was there too much freedom of speech in the Balkans? I think so. And yet the

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Downtown DC looked like the "I Am Legend" set yesterday as I made my way from the Obama inauguration back to Virginia. Our normally bustling metropolis was eerily silent and as empty as the Sahara desert in all directions. Well, except

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In my experience, people who advise on code-switching are embarrassed to do it themselves. Once they begin adopting the standard form, they feel they are regressing if they code-switch to their original variety. The guy in the video seems like