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  1. Nice 👍 explaination
    He ain't got a car can be said also as he ain't have a car or no

    But got of course sounds better still i want to know if both using got and have with aint is grammatically correct or no?

  2. In the example, "I ain't done nothing.", my sense of this is that, this is a Concordance dealing. We are still extremely likely all to understand it (when it is spoken).

  3. I think ain’t is very powerful even a bit of a negative connotation with more oompf than it’s counterparts. I use it all the time to add emphasis if I think someone ain’t got something

  4. We learn in school that "double negatives" like "I haven't done nothing" are wrong, but people use them in casual speech (especially in variants of English like AAVE) anyway. I personally don't usually use "I haven't done nothing" unless I'm trying to channel/convey a certain flippant or rebellious attitude or persona. Thank you for your answer!

  5. Unfortunately this discussion is a bit worthless without mentioning the fact that the word is generally used only in the most informal of speech and is heavily deprecated in every other situation

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