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Some of the deviations that recur in Monster
- double negation:
75/5 I didn’t do nothing. I didn’t do anything. 77/2 I didn’t see no woman. I didn’t see a woman. 95/18 You don’t have to be no Einstein. You don’t have to be Einstein. 113/18 He didn’t say nothing. He didn’t say anything. 114/14 I said I didn’t know nothing. I said I didn’t know anything. 116/23 I didn’t have nothing. I didn’t have anything to eat all the day. 119/2 King said he didn’t have no gun. King said he didn’t have a gun. 119/26 You can’t rely on nobody. You can’t rely on anybody. - absence of 3rd-person singular forms young don’t count young doesn’t count He don’t have no choice. He doesn’t have a choice. - omission of the copula(to be) 76/18 Trevor said he dead. Trevor said he is dead. 77/4 I don’t think he married. I don’t think he is married. 137/5 They looking - omission of the auxiliary 73/8 You playing football. You were playing football. 95/10 What you guessing about when. What are you guessing about when ... 109/9 I been knowing King all my life. I have been knowing King all my life. 109/27 I been arrested for ... I have been arrested for ... - past participle of strong verb denotes past tense 110/17 and we done it and we did it 122/22 I didn’t know what King done. I didn’t know what King did. 159/25 he got you he will get you by ChrisN + FloW http://duermueller.tripod.com/black.html Here you can find more examples for Black English. Its a story told by a 14-year-old girl from Memphis. Black English Vocabulary
to cop = to steal dude = guy get over = chance for a robbery score = hold up the deal goes down = the crime is comitted to cut s.o. = to hurt s.o. with a knife hood = ghetto neighborhood to be down = to be willing to join badge = policeman to cop some z’s = to secretly take a nap to diss = to insult a heavy = a 10 year prison term to take a hit on = to take a certain amount of s.th. crank = drugs beef =quarrel to light s.o up = to shoot s.o. to muscle = to attack to drop a dime on s.o.= to report s.o. to the police to get busted on a humble = to be arrestet on a small charge to cop rocks = to bye cocaine bourgie = middle-classe crack = a type of cocain crap = nonsense to be cooked = to have no chance joit = prison by Kathi |