[ichabod1]

“Why aren’t 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.

[Disestablishmentarian]

“Why aren’t 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.

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I don't know ... the subjunctive tense is fairly mysterious in English.

[Oratam]

I does not conjugate with are. It should be "Why Am I Not 50 points ahead" . . . I grew up in Illinois same as her, and in the upstate they don’t say ain’t.

Fowler agrees with you. He thought if there was aanything "proper" about "ain't" it was as the contraction of "am I not."