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I found today's comic (#1739) quite sad
akronnick:
But is the dick-broom touching you?
Don't worry, it's useless, you see.
raoullefere:
No, I don't see. And I don't want to, neither.
Which, to be true to dialect, is what Faye should've said in panel 2 instead of either: An' I bet you wouldn'a been wearin' pants, neither!
It's pathetic how much better I feel having posted that. *Sigh* <covers eyes with one hand> Pass me the freakin' broom.
Be My Head:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=740
Akima:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 02 Sep 2010, 07:17 ---Which, to be true to dialect, is what Faye should've said in panel 2 instead of either: An' I bet you wouldn'a been wearin' pants, neither!
--- End quote ---
Faye might have an accent, but I never got the impression she was a hick... :-D
raoullefere:
Ending a negative sentence with 'neither' isn't hickery in Southern—it's emphasis*, and I've yet to hear anyone who uses 'could'na' and so on who doesn't use terminal 'neither,' too, even if they never write that way. If Faye were a hick, and angry (I cannot emphasize this enough—fury makes this stuff more evident) there would have to be an 'ain't' in her speech somewhere, and possibly a 'goddam.' I do notice that in the last ten, twenty years 'goddam' has been replaced by 'fuckin' (no g, ever). Probably thanks to the goddam Yankees (with their goddam rappers, gangster movies, punks, and other goddam shit). But it can still crop up when we get really angry.
*A holdover—double negatives were perfectly acceptable in English grammar until some fancy-pants got hold of it in the eighteenth century or so.
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