Timeline for Is 'We'll have us a beer' acceptable in Standard English?
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| Aug 30, 2015 at 19:55 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Aug 21, 2015 at 18:30 | comment | added | Julie Carter | Hmm, note "we're gonna have us some sun" in a recent article on beer gardens in the London (UK) 'chatty' newspaper, Metro. Gonna have us has definitely 'arrived' in the UK. | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 18:17 | comment | added | Julie Carter | 'We're gonna have us a party!' appears in the lyrics of US rock, jazz and funk music. One eg is 'Life o' the Party', composed around 2003 by the Minnesotan musician, Prince | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 17:03 | comment | added | Zwi | To be clear, I didn't intend to offend, and was not intentionally making a judgement on the worth of the phrase (especially as I tend to enjoy slang a lot, and get ornery with pedants). You stated you would have thought it MUCH more common in America, so I asked myself...why? I do see it in fiction, that's one, since there's a lot of American authors. I do hear it in AAVE in Chicago, that's two. It is entirely possible it's used in other areas and dialects I'm unfamiliar with, I'm mostly speaking from my direct experiences. | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 16:50 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Zwi: It's used all over the place. Just not that common, and for no obvious reason it's considered somewhat "sub-standard, uneducated" by many. A lot of such usages are labeled AAVE in the US simply because that's an easily-identified group of speakers who frequently ignore mainstream preferences. Similar to the way people label non-standard UK usages "Cockney", even if they're not particularly associated with "uneducated Londoners". | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 16:44 | comment | added | Zwi | @FumbleFingers - It's used in fiction. I believe it might also be a part of AAVE. Outside of that it's not common. | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 16:31 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'd have thought Americans are much more likely than Brits to say We're gonna have us a party!. It sounds quintessentially American to me, and Google NGrams doesn't find enough instances to even graph that one with the BrE corpus. | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 15:57 | comment | added | David Garner | Likewise in the UK, it would be understood, but not commonly used. | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 15:40 | history | answered | Zwi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |