I heard a new word today. It was spoken by some young black men on the train. I guess it could be ebonics. It was Non’t, a clever jamming of two negative logical words into one illogical double negative contraction.

“Non’t you be takin my ipods.”

I never knew you could put a double negative and a contraction together in one phrase. Genius. Pretty soon we will have the ever so popular Neven’t, a combination of Never and Not.

“I neven’t been to no wine tastins.”

Here’s to TOEFL. Trippin’ on English as a Foreign Language.

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