I says

[TheParser]

[QUOTE=~Mav~;835018]
Anyway, how does a sentence like this, "I loves you." - or any other sentence using this structure - sound to a native English speaker?


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(1) Personally, I think that it sounds horrible and outrageous.

(2) If anyone spoke like that and ran for a political office, s/he would be laughed off

the stage. (NOTE: I have read that our President Wilson, 1913 - 1921, used to say

things like "He don't ...." in PRIVATE, but he did not dare speak like that in public.
He cleaned up his language and used doesn't.)

(3) As one moderator told us, some dialects in the United Kingdom permit (permitted?) constructions such as "I loves" and "he love." I have read that some of those people emigrated to the United States before our Civil War (1861 - 1865) and that their dialect was adopted by certain groups. You can still hear "She don't love me" and "She love me so much" in popular music.

[~Mav~]

Anyway, how does a sentence like this, "I loves you." - or any other sentence using this structure - sound to a native English speaker?

(1) Personally, I think that it sounds horrible and outrageous.

My sentiments exactly! Thank you very much for your reply.

[Tdol]

Cockney speakers use I says, and also sometimes use the third person singular without the -s. However, it seems to be used with certain verbs like say.