Timeline for "ain't … nobody" or "ain't … anybody"?
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| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:52 | comment | added | GoDucks | @Nathan I disagree or I wouldn't have said what I said. | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:48 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | @GoDucks: It's not so much that it's unnatural, but that it's a considerably weaker statement. | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:45 | comment | added | GoDucks | Very good point by @Jasper. If one is going to use the nonstandard ain't, the sentence would be weird with anybody but it's natural with nobody. | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:15 | comment | added | Jasper | @JiehongJiang -- The "ain't" marks the dialog as being in a dialect where using "nobody" (in this context) is more correct than using "anybody". It also marks the statement as not being Standard English. | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:15 | vote | accept | Jiehong Jiang | ||
| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:15 | history | edited | Nathan Tuggy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Bit more clarity
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| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:13 | comment | added | Jiehong Jiang | So both of them make the same sense, but the degree are different | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:11 | history | edited | Nathan Tuggy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Hat tip snailboat
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| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:01 | history | answered | Nathan Tuggy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |