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You say > On the other hand, I believe "I ain't do any drugs" is ungrammatical in AAVE But the OP says > "I ain't do any drugs" is a normal, grammatical sent
by Cederfjard 6y ago
You say
> On the other hand, I believe "I ain't do any drugs" is ungrammatical in AAVE
But the OP says
> "I ain't do any drugs" is a normal, grammatical sentence in AAE
And you concede that the OP is an expert and you are not.
For what it’s worth, and it’s not much because I’m neither a linguist nor a native speaker of any kind of English, I consume a lot of content made in AAE and have friends who speak it, and I would not bat an eye at seeing or hearing ”I ain’t do any drugs”. I think your interpretation of the grammar is too strict.
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- luckylion 6y agoNot proof either way, but searching for "I ain't do any drugs" and excluding floyd and chauvin gives like two dozen results on Google. Doing the same with "I ain't do no drugs" gives a few thousands, including song lyrics and memes.