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Would you like the German rights for yeahbut®, Werner?Not really, I am of the type who rather prefer people saying "Nobut"
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the German rights for yeahbut® prefer people saying "Nobut"Yeahbut® the former is much more melifluous auf deutschJaaber vs. neinaberUnd sagt man ,,Das ist aber richtig''?
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Oh aye
aye 'appen
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Then there's the one I never heard till I got to Upstate New York. So don't I. Recent research on another matter serendipitously uncovered the fact that it is considered a New England regionalism.
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Faldage,
In NY, if you agree with someone, you could say, "So don't I," and would generally be understood to be in agreement? It sounds like a teenaged thing--?? If it's been around for a while, I'll try it out on some of our yankee invaders who teach here with me at Spring Run.
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from both black and white
PBS (USn public television) ran a series some many years ago The Story of English. In the epsode entitled Black on White they chronicled the development of Black English from its roots in West African languages and its effect on White English with a special section on the influences of Black English on Upper Class Southern White English.
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So don't I is an established usage of older folks around here and not recent youthful slang. Not so common that the lovely AnnaS has heard it yet but certainly not entirely unknown. I suspect, given the AHD usage note cited above, from folks from New England, but I don't remember having heard it while in Boston.
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Alternatively --- 'me not either'
that's what my mother (whose first language isn't English) says - I love it (and her!)
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