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The dog what bit me was just trying to play.

The dog what bit me was just trying to play.

Good English
Acceptable English
Bad English


Votes: 244 Comments: 3 Added: June 2004
Comments:
arnquist - 1st October 2006 21:20
It's a dialect. Dialects shouldn't be judged as 'good' or 'bad' English, just non-standard.
 
kimmikoto - 14th April 2007 00:14
I was gagging on the sentence
 
Lucy - 7th October 2007 21:56
I agree that it's a dialect, but it's still bad English. For example, I could come in here and be all talkin' da Ebonics at ch'all but that wouldn't be good English.
 
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