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Originally Posted by GA Russell
In the past sixty years with the growth of rock 'n' roll and blues lyrics into mainstream speech, the idioms (if that's the right word) of the uneducated black tenant farmers who wrote and sang the songs have crept into white colloquial conversation.
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There are not enough "rofl" emoticons in the world to express my amusement at the implication in your post that white Americans all spoke the Queen's English before Rock and Black People changed all that.
It's More Complicated Than That.
And, speaking as someone with a degree in English, you can pretty much never say that a style of writing is "always wrong". Odds are, no matter what the rule is, someone has broken it before and broken it to good effect.