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PonyFan Posted 11 years ago
There is a sentence "Folks say it don't work the same as Equestria." in the above sentence, and the part of "it don't" is obviously ungrammatical. Does it have something to do with the character, Applejack, designed to be a stereotype of "southerner"? Thanks in advance?
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There is a sentence "Folks say it don't work the same as Equestria." in the above sentence, and the part of "it don't" is obviously ungrammatical. Does it have something to do with the character, Applejack, designed to be a stereotype of "southerner"? Thanks in advance?
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As well as Rainbow Dash using "Nopony" instead of "Nobody"; and Twilight Sparkle using "None have" instead of "None has".
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They are ponies. The word "pony" replaces the word "body."
I would suggest that many people (including me) use "have" there without any sense of irony.
I would suggest that many people (including me) use "have" there without any sense of irony.
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BarbaraPAThey are poniesIn that case, grammar wouldn't apply. Sorry.
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Some of Southern people really speak like this in their daily speech or it is just used by "stereotypical" Southerners which only exist in fictions?
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You find people using non-standard grammar everywhere, not just in the South.
One woman I know routinely uses "You was" instead of "you were."
I hear "I seen" often enough to wonder how these people graduated high school.
Many people use "ain't" but often it's ironic. We know it "ain't" proper grammar to use it, but we do to be funny or to emphasize something or in a standard ph
One woman I know routinely uses "You was" instead of "you were."
I hear "I seen" often enough to wonder how these people graduated high school.
Many people use "ain't" but often it's ironic. We know it "ain't" proper grammar to use it, but we do to be funny or to emphasize something or in a standard ph
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Yes, there are categories of people. Some aren’t fully educated but honestly try to improve. Some enjoy that they are under no obligation to change when corrected. Others adapt to their neighbourhood speech patterns in order to fit in.
In this last group are people from Yorkshire, from which most of the servants in a series called Downton Abbey. Regardless that they are actors and know pr
In this last group are people from Yorkshire, from which most of the servants in a series called Downton Abbey. Regardless that they are actors and know pr
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Is some UK's pubs (North West England) I've heard "We was" instead of "We were".
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Looks like the very strange subjunctive mood in formal English to me.
"Folks say (that) it don't work the same as Equestria."
With the missing "that" to join the subordinate clause, it looks clearer.
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