Negatives On Negatives. Angel Gaines

[@realist_chriss]

I did nothing = I chilled all day at home
I ain't done nothing = I didn't do anything wrong

[@saulgood12ofvertigo76]

This is brilliant

[@ebbyc1817]

You ain't never gon do anything = You're a failure in life

[@vianeyboruel504]

You aint Neva gonna do nothing no more....you got caught doing some shifty sht and it's lockdown...or a threat lol

[@joyjackson9807]

Perfect example

[@sg5720]

To me I ain’t done nothing = I wanted to get things done but did not get a chance. It is all in the tone. 😂😂

[@acbrown2011]

Which is why i, having grown up in NC, always laugh at the "Double negative" complaint. Cause there are people who can turn double negatives into algebra.

[@Crowned_ladyd]

😂❤ same! My entire NC family talks like this, and I love it because now it's a story behind it

[@tylerfb1]

😂

[@annad5130]

I’m from NC and this is true m. 😂

[@jessiep2471]

Hello from Craven County.

[@Truth_Speaker_WakeUp]

😂

[@susanweisheit68]

I’m white but from the south so I was gonna say “you ain’t got no money”

[@djc6323]

See the ‘got’ implies they normally do have money and the outspoken observer is shocked. In this position you would feel comfortable loaning a few dollars because even though they aint got no money (right now), you are confident they know how to go get some money soon. 😉

[@fatimam.2602]

I’m black from California and I thought the same…😂

[@djc6323]

@@fatimam.2602 Im a blk female from New Jersey living in ATL

[@katesanders6255]

Same from Texas! I was waiting for it to!😂

[@spacecase2493]

LITERALLY about to say the same thing, it's always bothered me that i do that

[@charlesstevenson2642]

Linguistics Prof: In some languages, a double negative makes a positive. But a double positive never makes it a negative.
Skeptical student: Yeah, right.

[@krotemitschild301]

That's the case in German! Honestly, it still confuses me, that it's not that way in the English language.

[@FreeToLove999]

@@krotemitschild301 But I think it does does whole true for the English language. I don't not think it does.

[@mothertruckeronajourney8037]

I see what you did there. Nice.

[@krotemitschild301]

@@FreeToLove999 Okay, I think my brain just stopped braining, thank you😂😭

[@FreeToLove999]

@@krotemitschild301 I love it when we can have a bit of fun with our virtual community. Thanks! 👍🏾😉🤣🤣🤣

[@cheyennemolinari1164]

"That's called unemployment" I'm dead

[@keyonna]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@AlanMelling]

This is why AI will never catch up to the complex usage of real people

[@advaidsantosh5788]

You say that but the final goal of AI is to replicate thinking like this. This specific case isn't even a complex one you can definitely create AI to understand speech like this. Additionally What you currently see are just AI tools not a complete Artificial Intelligence Program.

[@LaurennM360]

Except it can.

[@dontburstmybubble686]

@@advaidsantosh5788An actual Artificial Intelligence Program would need quantum computing to work, wouldn't it? Making the processor as small as an atom to replicate the effects of real particles?

[@candyluna2929]

​@@louisweber2095 I have no money therefor I am not real

[@Alex-qj3wp]

and by will never catch up, you mean in three years

[@IntellectuallyKurious]

I'm intrigued off this short clip. Lemme check out the full set.

[@JillAlexander]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@tes-xj8uy]

like she educating me at the same time 😂 I like her

[@killumination87]

Yeah She got me.. I want to see the whole thing

[@mizzhops]

Me too!!

[@Celinemoonstone]

I knew which negative was coming next every time lol

[@getjaynesmith4770]

Yup! My black soul felt all of this and said it before she did!

[@dahmeneekah]

Same! She just didn't add ain't to any of it in the clip

[@Chloeeezyyy]

Same

[@nessababy82289]

I’m not black but grew up in black neighborhoods and I realized how much of my way of speaking is from black culture.

[@user-wr5um1dm3o]

A linguist told me that this is the syntact of African languages. Th more negatives, the greater rhe emphasis on negative, but English is different. Also Asian language depends on the modifier to imply plural, i.e. 5 dollar instead of 5 dollars

[@cybercraft5393]

You know what. Off top that makes so much sense! Any number of an item greater than 1 automatically means it's plural so the s on the end is kind of redundant. Linguistics is fascinating!

[@geetha92533]

omgosh, Ive heard immigrants with excellent English skills drop the plural “s” and wondered why. Makes total sense.
I have another one. My dad has to actually remember to say please when talking to waitstaff, otherwise he’ll say “Get me…” Which sounds rude. Finally, one day I realized, in their native language, there are two versions of the words “Get me”. One has an implied please and is very polite, you use it exclusively with strangers, like a waiter, and the other you use with familiar people. In both, the “me” is also part of the word, so it’s just one word. :) But both versions translate to just “Get me” in English.

[@baintreachas]

"Asian" and "African" are not really legitimate ways to group languages, certainly not with such specific claims... there is of course no such thing as a single "African syntax", or an "Asian plural". it might be more accurate to say these are features observed more often in African languages (probably in a specific subset of them - if we're talking about those which most influenced AAE, probably West African?) and features observed more often in Asian languages (probably in a specific subset of them - I'm guessing East Asian) than in European languages.
but again, that would be a strange way to phrase things. Hindi, for instance, would be an "Asian language", and English would be a "European language" - and yet, both are Indo-European languages, and both modify the endings of a word to indicate plural. (whether these facts are connected, i couldn't say with certainty, but just as an example of how language families are not continental, and we miss out on a lot if we act like they are). actually, English is the odd one out with regard to the plural form, compared to its linguistic relatives, but I digress...
also, many dialects of English - even excluding creoles, AAE, etc., - do exhibit the same "more negatives = greater emphasis on negative", so I'm unsure of the veracity of "it's a feature foreign to the English language", but if you could link to info abt that, i'd love to learn more!

[@davelife3324]

⁠​⁠@@baintreachasWhile you’re absolutely right, I assume by “African” languages they mean Niger-Congo languages, which most sub-Saharan languages fall under. And while “Asian” languages fall into a whole bunch of separate families, it is true that East Asian languages, even unrelated, often have what are called “measure words,” which i assume is what op was talking about.

[@mdheartsuju]

@@geetha92533in my language we also don’t say the word please. In fact we don’t even have one. The closest word to please is I beg you/I beg of you. This is only used like on signs or in extreme situations. In normal situations the polite way of asking for things is the equivalent of may I have / can I have. 17 years later I still have to remind myself to say it. My mum hardly ever says it and I always have to remind her.

[@sebastianmaker6798]

My (Puerto Rican) mother enjoyed this thoroughly. She sent back a voice message saying "YES YES SHE HAS IT PERFECTLY"

[@deathmauler181]

Its amazing that she was able to make such a good out of this. I love her timing. She seems very comfortable on stage and its amazing how connected she made it all.

[@dabieyo]

As a non native English speaker and student, AAVE has always been a continuous source of interest for me, it's so full of life and like... YEAH the first moment she added the first negative I FELT that difference, love that

[@atolkieneffort]

i’m minoring in linguistics at college and took a class last semester called “intro to african american english” where we talked about this kind of syntactical structure and it was SO cool to learn about

[@ichigostrawberryzoey]

That sounds amazing!

[@LadyAGlobal]

The fact that there is a class on our everyday existence is wild! I’m intrigued. Was the professor Black American?

[@PowderedFace]

@@LadyAGlobalI hope so

[@cyberbunny-hj9ii]

@@LadyAGlobalRight. I find it odd lmfao

[@Sportt_]

Sht is very odd and weird. Nothing about it will make it not weird.

[@Panwere36]

I had a lot of black friends in school, so I knew first of she was going down this road, and she is right! The more negatives.. the bigger the fight coming around the corner...

[@stillfoxyforever]

Her voice inflections is the cherry on top.

[@peanutbutterpanda19]

This is a great demonstration of prescriptive vs descriptive language. It's fine when you're taught in early schools about the prescriptive view of language, but too many people take that very basic level of education and think they are experts and that the descriptive view of language is invalid.
The purpose of language is to communicate, ignoring the ways people actually end up communicating while only focusing on the ways they they "should" as narrowly defined by a very slow to change set of rules is literally just choosing to be ignorant.

[@gaylejideofor6198]

the more negatives just shows the pain of how much you just have never seen! good job sis.

[@janeenjourney43]

Actually, this is a really good example of the complexity of AAVE. It is a language- Not Slang

[@joannerandolph2198]

She must be an English teacher as well as a Comedian! Good job!❤

[@meshaerobinson8316]

She is a teacher though I forget which subject if there's only one.

[@RecklessTNF]

How do I kno this before she even said it 😂😂😂

[@wilbertlemuel1124]

This is a dialect. The double negatives are a carry over common in some West African languages. Like other ethnic groups with a long history in the US we carry cultural markers from langauge, to music to food from those who came before us. I like how the comedian pointed out the differences lol.

[@rashadroberts8442]

Well said sir!

[@RogerDuly]

Ebonics

[@1-GOD-ONLY..]

this way of saying... sounds much more better/beautiful.🎉❤

[@mylesrobinson421]

“You ain’t got not nann piece of change” 😂😂😂😂

[@CJ-xq6xw]

This is my family right here!😂

[@boebender]

Like a foreign language professor 😂❤

[@user-xv3tl6jp3o]

A girl was sitting on the steps with her legs wide opened. Some boys walked by and saw underneath the girl's dress and laughed and taunted her . That angered her and she yelled at them "if you hadn't been lookin' you wouldn't been saw!"

[@donaldreason5664]

Breason
She is fantastic !!! Love to see full version !!!😂😂😂😂😂

[@ntuan9360]

That jumpsuit is jumping

[@moriahwebster1798]

I would have passed linguistics if it were taught this way 😂

[@cmclark7]

That was the clearest English lesson I’ve ever had

[@christinemorris8578]

She's adorable 😂❤.

[@seadawg93]

I love this! I often get videos of comedians bemoaning “incorrect” language usage; this is much more fun for me because it’s demonstrating something other than “King’s English,” as being a very effective and nuanced form of communication …and it’s funny.

[@kathyd456]

Nicely said. 😄

[@judithjohnson724]

I'm a white girl from South Carolina and me and all my kin talk EXACTLY the same way. Lol!

[@soroh0062255]

Historically, this was a normal way to use negators. The more negatives, the more negative it made everything... And then some fancy pants added mathematics. (so they could feel superior over the "uneducated" masses who weren't using their new mathematically based "rule")

[@schoo9256]

It makes way more sense, too.

[@soroh0062255]

@@schoo9256 it does! Same way some verbs historically got used without changing it to match the subject. Ex. It be like that. To add extra emphasis. And then the rules became more important than local extra rules so some people could feel superior 🙄

[@user-pp4uk6vg4g]

I bet this woman can SING! Her intonations are crisp and clear.😊

[@karenlynch8348]

She isn’t wrong! ❤😂 love this lady

[@haute03]

This is a master class in AAVE. ❤

[@sheenameades6773]

You ain't got no money!!!!

[@dahmeneekah]

Right.... I was waiting for the ain't

[@jagp135]

Insufficient fuuuunds 🎵🎶

[@rootkite]

Sociolinguistics is not only educational, but often hilarious 😂 and super creative 😊 AAVE is an amazing form of English. And you're an awesome comic, thanks and bless! ❤

[@nono-tg8dn]

The beautiful thing is that this carries over from many african languages ❤, the emphasis on double negatives.

[@bec7080]

My husband and i grew up in two different types of homes. Me, impoverished. In the hood in the 80/90s during the crack epidemic. In an area that still hasn't been gentrified all the way in a large city.
He, middle class all the way with his engineering grandfather.
We had moved up to solidly middle class before covid. I had him on a good spending leash. Blah de blah covid.
Now, not in that same path. So i will be like "we have 100 to pay day and a couple small bills night come through so try not to touch the bank account. He will spend $50 at the store. 😮
He's like. Well i didn't think you meant literally $100.

[@jamesgenovese8185]

Experiencing the same thing in my home. Things have tightened up significantly due to inflation and we had a ton of huge bills hit at once. We had finally gotten past "paycheck to paycheck" after 26 years, and here we are, right back to "paycheck to paycheck." It was a rude awakening for my wife and my kids, to say the least.

[@beckykay9178]

@@jamesgenovese8185praying something good comes your way soon. Same to the person you’re replying to.

[@anitapeludat256]

Oh man, I understand your perspective. When my husband has done this, for an educated man, he seems awfully ignorant of the FACTS.

[@anitapeludat256]

​@@jamesgenovese8185
It's a harsh reality of the times. As of 1980, it became a decline with (the trickle down theory). I was 20 and my sister's and I immediately knew we would never have our parents economy. I'm 63, my husband and I, after kids, planned well in advance and we now have zero debt, we have a much lower income, and because of huge medical expenses through the last 30 years due to his serious spine injury, we don't have anywhere near the savings my blue collar father did. The best we could do was have no debt, no car payments, 2 cars, older but in very good condition and we live in a rented one floor condo for health reasons and had to sell our home years ago to get out of debt due to medical reasons. We've downsized our possessions because we truly don't need a lot of "things". And when we pass, hopefully many years from now, our son's won't have a lot to contend with. No house to sell and just save the family heritage stuff so they can carry on for the family. My husband especially has a real hard time not having as much money at this age as his father. But, like mine, that was a different post WWII economy. My Dad grew up dirt poor, everyone was poor around the depression era, so, he was an astute penny pincher. Most of that generation were. Out of having nothing while growing up.

[@janet1744]

​@@anitapeludat256: That is undisciplined habits and ignoring money facts.

[@dancl8674]

“You never ain’t got no money!”

[@ah5721]

= You're broke as hell . Why are you even here?!

[@ucheisaac2525]

Nicely put😂😂😂😂

[@glowdoll183]

That would be “ you ain’t never got no money!” That’s the proper improper double negative used in AAVE. We have rules thank you very much.

[@PatientPerspective]

​@@glowdoll183😂 😂 ok. Done laughing. So true.

[@vianeyboruel504]

This means they're rich and trying to get out of paying something

[@its_foi]

When I was freshly new to living in the US, math taught me negative x negative = positive. But then I figured a couple years later that it’s just staying negative. 😂

[@Heartchakra777]

Namaste 🙏 love it she a breath of fresh air 😇no cursing 🙏

[@RecklessTNF]

I love the school kids piece too 😂😂😂. Watch full clip on here

[@deathmauler181]

Does she tour? I would love to see her live and see her crowd work.
She reminds me of my auntie when i was coming up.

[@C.UHoward]

Facts! I went to high school in Washington, D.C. and I was in a carry out with one of my boys and this girl was in there and she said something where I know she had 5 negatives in one whole sentence. I laughed on the way out!

[@Tim3.14]

This is like a whole linguistics lesson wrapped in a comedy routine 👏

[@Xubono]

This lady is brilliant!

[@Twilarose77]

Lol, my first thought was, "You ain't got no money!"

[@Boogy816]

Same thing

[@somerandomyoutubechannel5816]

"That's called unemployment." I'm crying.

[@hakmakesmusic]

I feel like if French was my first language, the only way I would excel in learning English grammar would be from this professeur. Bravo, Madame Gaines !

[@teejayangel6638]

😂😂😂😂😂 as a non American, it usually takes me some time to understand American English. Another one I heard was "you should've went" 😑 how now?

[@TayongoExplores]

That's so common.

[@ThisIsJ.Nicole]

...that's just bag grammar😅

[@kylekimber]

Ahhh yes. The folks in Provo Utah really are connecting with this material.
Great bit btw.

[@williamcouncil2011]

Honestly she is phenomenal! Truly

[@auntistella]

Oh wow!!! Shes so on point!! Thanks for sharing❤️

[@FreeToLove999]

Hilarious! I don't not love smart clean comedy! 😁😁😁😊❤❤❤

[@kauffrau6764]

She is so charming and hilarious!!!❤

[@Dunken_Donut]

I don't usually find female comedians to be funny. But this was delightful 🙂

[@absolustely.honest82]

Finally, someone who is female, black and funny. Thank you, sista!!

[@Mehki227]

There's another female on here. At first I thought it was her. They both funny asf

[@kittykitty8895]

It’s a southern talk I know to well, 5 $ use to fill our tank up , not no more!!😢

[@Jeremy-wp4yh]

Isn't that AAVE? I don't hear anyone else using double negatives (which is incorrect ofcourse)

[@thesoul2sqeeze]

​@@Jeremy-wp4yh it comes from Ireland and England so southern makes sense

[@joelpannell3057]

No, it's an uneducated thing

[@thesoul2sqeeze]

@@joelpannell3057 really? Funny how Ireland is one of the most educated countries in the world then .

[@ang5035]

AAVE is so complexed and nuanced and expressive. Luv it❤

[@billieeyelash7015]

Very enriching and beautiful culture!

[@elizabethbowie9753]

Should have stopped at 2 negatives. Why??!?!
Because 2 negatives = a positive!!! 💖💖💖

[@sunshinelollipopunicorn8191]

An unapologetic black woman without a bad attitude and a great sense of humor is a very powerful thing=ROCKSTAR

[@hadesisbaby]

i wish i had the time to teach people in youtube comments what micro aggressions are because throwing in “without a bad attitude” was CRAZY

[@RandomPersonette]

yet i bet you don't have time to comment on all the white women with bad attitudes and no humour...your racist microaggression dressed up as a compliment is lame.

[@Petie718]

​@@hadesisbabyyeahhh I was about to say...

[@naturallykiera5063]

@@Petie718 Ok; so we all agree on the micro aggressions with this comment? Happy we on the same page

[@Fredfredfredfredfredfredfred]

This is a seriously seriously high well crafted joke I mean I am just lubricated in laughter over here

[@RandomCivilians]

Will never forget when I encountered "Ain't you got no none of them that there?" in the wild.

[@bass2meowth358]

So fire. She didn't even talk about sex. Take notes lady comedians.

[@thesoul2sqeeze]

Tell me a few male comedians that don't talk about sex

[@bass2meowth358]

@@thesoul2sqeeze chastize me more loser. No one cares

[@lynnehuff7059]

Oh, she does. When she does she's pretty outrageous So funny!

[@gojewla]

“You don’t have no money” actually means “you have some money.”
“You don’t never have no money” means “you sometimes have no money.”

[@Mehki227]

No, it means you ain't got no money. You broke. And usually broke by implication. And the other one means you don't ever have any money EVER and I'm sick of your broke azz.

[@Vitaliuz]

The acting was spot on.

[@4islandbeauty]

😂😂Jokes aside i love the fit and the colour is absolutely stunning

[@Ggravezz]

I love linguistic humor~ thank you😂❤

[@stephaniemorris9337]

Very good play on words and the meanings of our Black vernacular!
Loved your skit! Different ❤!

[@justwaiting5744]

She's absolutely right!

[@ANunes06]

When you're young, a sign of intelligence is being bothered by this kind of linguistic construction. When you're older, a sign of intelligence is gaining a deep and abiding appreciation for the nuances available when you're willing to break the rules of standard English grammar.

[@raalexander8708]

i am on a quest to find a funny female comedian for years and as i almost have given up i found this gem :)))) shes hilariooous

[@angrytedtalks]

In English, we say "you don't have any money".
Depending on the intonation, it could be a question rather than an exclamation or statement.
The later versions would be "You are without means of payment" and
"You are without means of payment once again".
Ultimately, "you don't have any means of payment any more".

[@user-vo8zf4dm2u]

Absolutely mind-blowing!

[@ESJonas]

A great female comedian. Doesn't need to be gross.

[@Yours_sincerely_thedreamer]

In German a double negative makes a positive 😂 Our language is like math! Confused the hell out of me when I lived in Namibia though 😅

[@mollygrace3068]

What’s funny is that in several other language, continuous negatives throughout the sentence are mandatory. But we consider it inherently wrong.

[@zmnotary1741]

Very nice jumpsuit!!

[@fiatnomo2874]

That really got funnier and funnier the more she kept talking.😂

[@dorseyromano5812]

So clever! I love it!

[@tylociraptor8131]

Get Sunn M'Cheaux over here to collab with this lady !!

[@justincase7848]

Thats a brilliant way of using it for a bit

[@Mificsai]

Dialects are wonderful, makes me feel like I know multiple languages even if it’s all English 😂

[@terrancekayton007]

😂 she’s very clever. That’s hilarious!

[@jennymk01]

It's funny how catchy language is, too. With the age of the internet, I find myself saying things a little white girl from the PNW wouldn't say otherwise, but it's ingrained in my speaking patterns. Not this heavy, obviously, but I do use double negatives, and I also really weirdly use a handful of southern phrases?? Ive never been to the South. Lots of 60/70s slang and phrases, my speach is sprinkled with everyone I have met.
If I hear something, there is always a chance Im going to "catch" it and use it without even thinking about it.
I think it's greatly helpful in writing, though. Since my brain grabs and mixes phrases and pronunciations from everyone I hear, it lets me write better poetry. I feel like I craft better sentences because of it.
Anyway, I love speach, language and how differently we all use it.

[@nicokuhne3255]

adding words to sentences changes the meaning. Man you guys have a crazy language. So cool

[@dilamuncinta]

As someone who English is second language, I am always confused to understand this sentence with two negative words. Thank you for sharing the explanation. ❤

[@heathermurdy8358]

That suit is everything

[@timmartin638]

Correction not African American black America. There's a slight difference, especially in culture, but we use the word so interchangeably people use it incorrectly all the time

[@TheChuDragon]

I've always hated the double negative but now I get it... I'm enlightened. I don't never understood till now.

[@ibuprofriends]

still need some lessons cause that sentence dont make no sense.

[@TheChuDragon]

@@ibuprofriends you ain't never got no under understanding of what I said. = You have never before had a grasp or any sort of comprehension of the true meaning of my utterances.

[@Petie718]

​@TheChuDragon "I ain't never understood till now" would make more sense.

[@TheChuDragon]

@@Petie718 you're right😳

[@nelsondzmiller4637]

The best English grammar lecture ever

[@demial4]

Thank you for the education ma'am. I appreciate you ♥️

[@alexia3552]

She’s so funny and her expressions are great!

[@carrielawrence7676]

Love it. So real and true.

[@andrewkeats3181]

So refreshing to see someone understands correct English.

[@BryanJL]

The accent is what makes it sound funny