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I’m not familiar with the song, but going by lyrics alone, “I won’t do the things they learned me” is accidentally spot-on for native speakers of some dialects
by evincarofautumn 8y ago
I’m not familiar with the song, but going by lyrics alone, “I won’t do the things they learned me” is accidentally spot-on for native speakers of some dialects of English where “learn” can also mean “teach”, e.g., “That’ll learn him to mess with me!” (= “That will teach him that he shouldn’t mess with me”). To native speakers in general, it comes off as adding a bit of old-fashioned/country flavour.
- estomagordo 8y agoThanks for pointing that out. As much as I pick up aspects of an English dialect here or there, I'm sure there are many more similar things I just don't know. If I heard a native speaker say the above, I would assume they were a bit uneducated, that it's a sociolect kind of thing.