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The repetition isn't redundant. It's for emphasis. "I don't got no..." is much stronger than "I don't have any...".
by xenophonf 10y ago
The 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).