Those “rules of grammar” you’re citing have been defined by a very specific class (and frankly, color) of people, and then dictated to students.
Language is functional when it communicates ideas sufficiently from a speaker to their selected audience, and it’s the speaker and their audience who decide that.
With regard to the specific sentence “I didn’t do nothing,” you wouldn’t have asked this question if you didn’t already know what such a speaker was actually trying to communicate. You just don’t like it, and that’s a you thing.
Gah - just realized you’re not OP. My previous paragraph still generally stands.
No, your entire comment is in general ignorance of my point, which I’ve articulated enough times by now that I’m not going to do it again. Y’all can hide behind cultural differences as much as you want. Grammatical rules still exist and pointing that out isn’t racist. Grow the fuck up, I’m out.
Those “rules of grammar” you’re citing have been defined by a very specific class (and frankly, color) of people, and then dictated to students.
Language is functional when it communicates ideas sufficiently from a speaker to their selected audience, and it’s the speaker and their audience who decide that.
With regard to the specific sentence “I didn’t do nothing,”
you wouldn’t have asked this question if you didn’t already know what such a speaker was actually trying to communicate. You just don’t like it, and that’s a you thing.Gah - just realized you’re not OP. My previous paragraph still generally stands.
No, your entire comment is in general ignorance of my point, which I’ve articulated enough times by now that I’m not going to do it again. Y’all can hide behind cultural differences as much as you want. Grammatical rules still exist and pointing that out isn’t racist. Grow the fuck up, I’m out.