What about this contraction ?

Ain't

What does it mean ?

Is it slang or something ?

BTW I think every language has it's own problems.

 

F150Europe - Ain't is not proper English, but is commonly used. Depending on the context it usually means 'is not' or 'are not'.

Example: "He ain't as tough as his brother, Billy Bob" (ain't = is not)

and, "We ain't gonna refund your money just 'cause that chili-cheese dog was served cold" (ain't = are not)

 

Take comfort in knowing that you are not alone in your tasks of typing non-English names. Sure makes you wish 'ole Ti Xo had more relatives working at the place.

 

Yeah but in French our things are either male or female! "La table" is the table but "la" is used instead of "le" because the table is female! un, une, la , le etc... Really no rules you just have to remember them all.

Yeeah ing-glish is a vearie phunnie langooidge. Butt it's ah gud won two no. Emahgin lerning Russion! Aineewahie eye ahm juste rambeling ohn annd ohn

 

F150Europe:
Ain't ain't a word cause it ain't in the dictonary. You should hear some of the things that pass for English just slightly south of where I live

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My favorite word has to be queue. It's the only word in English that has four extra (and completely useless) letters. Q, there - you're done. You don't need to go add the U E U E.


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Nope, that's George Carlin.

Gallagher is the guy who has the huge mallet which he uses to mash things that splatters the audience.

 

Can you imagine being an english teacher in our schools today, especialy after reading this thread LOL.

 

Lariat4wd, That is called phonetic spelling.

Doe instead of Dough, Ruff instead of Rough, Etc Etc.

Or as some of you may know it better; "Hooked On Phonics"

It is how you teach a slow child to read, they associate the spelling with the way they were taught to pronounce it.

Don't worry, someday when all of these hooked on phonics kids get older they will change the language.

 

I remember getting corrected for pronouncing the letter "R" as the word "are" would be. The corrected version was "are-AH" I still find that funny.
On the same subject,I spell my name constantly for people on the phone(and in person) and it's not that unusual of a name. (Miguel) You would be amazed at the way my name is spelled when I order things through the mail. A few examples
are McGill,,,MacGill,,,Miquel,,,Migel,,,Magill
It's a wonder I get anything Also,because my last name starts with "L" they leave it off.(LOTT) so it becomes"OTT" At least they usually get the address right,LOL,,,,,98

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Had to take the picture out,it was way too out of date,,,,98

 

George Carlin, Gallagher, Dennis Miller, I thought of another name you might have been thinking of, Steven Wright. He had a deadpan, monotone delivery. Here is one of my favorites of his;

"Someone broke into my apartment."
"They stole everything I had and replaced it with an exact duplicate."

"I asked my roommate about it and he said, "Who are you?""

 

Steven Wright rocks..


"If I melt a tub full of dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?"

"I you drive the speed of light, and turn on your headlights, does anything happen?"

 

more Steven Wright:

I replaced my headlights with strobe lights. Now it looks like everyone else is way too slow.

 

LOL I work in computer support for a national company and we get a lot of great names. Most of them are from here locally though! The funniest example that comes to mind is **** Buttram (I mean come on, go by Richard for gods sake!)

We've had some you have to stop yourself from laughing whenever you hear it. That's part of the fun though .

 

Used to have a client named **** Glick. he is a doctor.