Why arent I 50 points ahead, you might ask!!!!!.
Something about that has always bugged me, and I just realized what it is. It’s bad grammar. I does not conjugate with are. It should be Why Am I Not 50 points ahead. I realized that earlier but there’s more. I grew up in Illinois same as her, and in the upstate they don’t say ain’t. White people in Lake Forest don’t say ain’t. It leaves them in a bit of a bind and that’s why its an ignorant wypepo way of saying ain’t.
Something about that has always bugged me, and I just realized what it is. Its bad grammar.
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I don't know ... the subjunctive tense is fairly mysterious in English.
Fowler agrees with you. He thought if there was aanything "proper" about "ain't" it was as the contraction of "am I not."