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          Word use, (circumlunar), 08/11/2018
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I  was  at  the  grocery store  grabbing  some  dish  washer
detergent and  automatic transmission fluid (my  car leaks a
bit, it's a short and boring story.) As I was walking out to
my car, I  overheard some folks that had  checked out before
me talking about getting their groceries into their vehicle.
This is the phrase I heard:

"You  done put  that <indistinct>  back in  the car,  now we
ain't got no room for nothin'."

Being human, I immediately set  to work passing judgement on
these people based  on their manner of speech.  I'm sorry to
have to admit it,  but I feel some pride in  the fact that I
at least  realize that I'm  a prejudiced jerk at  times, and
that I largely  keep my judgements to myself. As  I got into
my vehicle,  pondering on my  false sense of  superiority, I
started to think about the phrase these people had turned so
casually, and which I never would have considered uttering:

"we ain't got no room for nothin'"

I can't  fault them for  the use  of the word  "ain't," even
though it  was roundly  denied me  when I  was a  youth. The
word  is now  a  formal and  officially  recognized part  of
language (whatever  that means),  and is even  a part  of my
StarDict dictionary  that I use  on the command line.  It is
colloquial,  but  *bing*,  wake  up Joey,  the  people  were
*talking casually*, shouldn't their speech be conversational
and colloquial?

Why am I such a jerk sometimes, even if only in my own head?

If  I allow  for  colloquialisms (as  if it  were  up to  me
anyway),  then the  whole phrase  is excused.  But as  I sat
there, I still  wanted to understand the  phrase. Of course,
it was  clear enough to me  that they were saying  "we don't
have any room,"  but why was it clear? I  broke it down like
this:

(we) (ain't got  no) (room) (for nothin')
(we) (don't don't have) (room) (for nothing)  
(we) (have) (room) (for nothing)
"we have room for nothing"

Which of course could also be stated:

"We don't have room for anything."

...or  perhaps any  number  of other  ways.  The phrase  was
clear  to me  because  in spite  of  the needlessly  complex
construction, it was correct.

(I should  note here that none  of this matters at  all, and
that  I don't  actually care  all that  much how  the people
around me choose to talk-  I enjoy the variety- and finally,
that  I fully  realize  my own  weakness  in language,  both
written and spoken.)

My point  in sharing this  brief experience is to  point out
that  often when  I pass  judgement on  people without  much
thought, my initial judgement is unfounded; and even when it
is founded in  some nonsensical thing, it  is meaningless in
terms  of humanity,  reality,  sociality, and  spirituality.
Moreover,  my judgements  almost  always myopically  exclude
a  comparative   picture  of  myself,  my   own  faults  and
shortcomings; or even worse, they aggrandize my strengths to
the point of nonsense.

I really just wanted to get  some dish washer detergent, but
I guess our minds are always wandering this way or that.

(side note:  I  believe  Muphry's Law might apply to my 
situation here[1], and I therefore claim my right to be 
exused for any errors in my text.)


[1] gopher://gopherpedia.com:70/0/Muphry's law