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   Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   AK> In a textbook "Short stories", by Olly Richards I read   
   AK> the story "Daring Diabolo" where a criminal boss says to   
   AK> his wife that this town is not needed for the law.   
      
   This town is not needed for the law -- makes no sense to me.   
      
   AK> "There is no law for me. And there ain't no law needed   
   AK> for this town either!"   
   AK>   
   AK> In his comment the teacher (Olly Richards) tells that   
   AK> "ain't" is  a slang, an informal way to say and write   
   AK> "am not", "are not", "is not", "has not" or "have not".   
      
   Yes.  The liner notes for my Pat Boone anthology say it is   
   the word of proletarian negation, whence Boone's proposal to   
   sing "Isn't it a shame" instead of "Ain't that a shame" in   
   his watered-down cover to Fats Domino's hit.   
      
   AK> Well, let's get the full version, without the slang:   
   AK>   
   AK> "There is no law for me. And there is not no law needed   
   AK> for this town either!"   
   AK>   
   AK> I can't see the sense, although I think I know what he   
   AK> means. ;)   
      
   "Ain't" likes a double negative.  Clarence "Frogman" Henry   
   sang "I ain't got no home." Lula Reed sang "I ain't no   
   cotton-picking chicken," and she sure is not!   
      
   Good old American music, exterminated by the Brithish   
   invasion of the age the transistor, with multiminking,   
   mixing consoles, and artifical reverberators?   
      
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