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Poll: The dog what bit me was just trying to play.

The dog what bit me was just trying to play.

Good English
Acceptable English
Bad English

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This Poll:

  • Votes: 596
  • Comments: 3
  • Added: June 2004

Comments:

arnquist

It's a dialect. Dialects shouldn't be judged as 'good' or 'bad' English, just non-standard.

kimmikoto

I was gagging on the sentence

Lucy

I agree that it's a dialect, but it's still bad English. For example, I could come in here and be all talkin' da Ebonics at ch'all but that wouldn't be good English.

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