“My parents didn’t come here with nothing.” Sounds like Michelle opened with ghetto slang.
“My parents didn’t come here with nothing.” Sounds like Michelle opened with ghetto slang.
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Ah hah, the grammar Nazis have arrived. Actually, I expect that Michelle came from the good English grammar ghetto.
Which of the following POSITIVE statements would be correct (or sound most correct to you)?
1. My parents came here with nothing!
or
2. My parents came here with anything!
Now make whichever one of the above is grammatically correct NEGATIVE and what do you have?
I’m not trying to be a nit-picker, but I think Michelle Malkin is wonderful and I don’t like to see her (even marginally and in good humor) attacked. I believe that Michelle’s word construction was correct.
Wow... .and the horse you rode in on buddy.
The problem is that the first 3 clauses were written up as separate sentences, followed by the part that completes the thought:
“My parents didn’t come here with nothing. Not knowing anybody. Not having a dime in their pockets… For me to be a wallflower.
What she meant was that her parents came here with nothing, knowing no one, not a dime in their pockets, and they didn’t go through all that to see her be a wallflower.
The fault, Dear Brutus, lies in the pUnct-uat’ion;
She said it correctly... whomever wrote the article screwed it up. Here it is with the better punctuation:
“My parents didn’t come here with nothing, not knowing anybody, not having a dime in their pockets… for me to be a wallflower.”
Since you are calling correctly formatted speech "ghetto slang", shouldn't you have said "It sounds like..."?