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"this here" is redundant; "This" being something near the speaker, "here" being near the speaker. This type of redundancy is often found in rural and vernacular
by delinka 10y ago
"this here" is redundant; "This" being something near the speaker, "here" being near the speaker. This type of redundancy is often found in rural and vernacular speech in the US. A similar redundant construct is "I don't got no..." meaning "I do not have any...", but one that is entirely more grotesque to my ear.
- fr0sty 10y agoIt could be worse. Could be: "Ain't got no..."
- delinka 10y agoI actually typed that at first, but then I didn't want to explain Yet Another Dialectism to a non-native speaker. :P
- xenophonf 10y agoThe repetition isn't redundant. It's for emphasis. "I don't got no..." is much stronger than "I don't have any...".
- stan_rogers 10y agoNot so much for emphasis as because of different rules for spatial deixis. Even Standard English used to have more than just this and that; we also had yon to indicate things that were farther away than that, and there are finer distinctions in several dialects of English (and in many languages other than English).