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HJÆLP?

Er det ikke "That aint no way to talk to a lady" ?

Men jeg mangler en begrundelse for, hvorfor det er "aint"

"ain't" er amerikansk eller -nogle gange- meget uhøjtideligt eller dialektalt engelsk i stedet for "isn't"

In extension to Stygotius' reply:

While ain't is indeed a dialectical replacement for negated forms of to have and to be, in this case, if you switch the ain't back to isn't, remember also to flip the negation no to any. Otherwise you'll have on your hands, "That isn't no way to talk to a lady." , ie a double negation (and a clumsy one at that), which is frowned upon. You can, however, say, "That is no way ... ."

(All this reminds me of a scene in the British, police-themed comedy series, "The Thin Blue Line", starring Rowan Atkinson as a Police Inspector. A youngster in police custody is asked what he's been up to, to which he replies, "I haven't been up to nuttin!". Atkinson's character then cleverly points out, "If you haven't been up to nothing, then, surely, you must have been up to something? Double negations can be your worst enemy!")

Hvad rakijovic siger, er da både rigtigt og vittigt. 

Imidlertid forsvarer professor Otto Jespersen til en vis grad fænomenet og siger at man ikke må tænke om negation som logikerne gør, og han tilføjer: "It spreads, as it were, a thin layer of negation over the whole sentence." Han sammenligner det med forholdene på f.eks. spansk, hvor man siger "No se nada" ( = jeg ved ikke noget)  og på fransk hvor det hedder  "Je ne sais rien". På bosnisk siger man "ne znam ništa".