From: tgpedersen
Message: 63233
Date: 2009-02-20
> > http://www.bartleby.com/61/1/A0450100.htmlBut not the uneducated ones, who don't know the proper grammar?
> >
> > Usage note :
> >
> > In many dialects [I add : of American English that is to say],
> > people use as in place of that in sentences like <We are not sure
> > as we want to go> or <It's not certain as he left>. This
> > construction is not sufficiently well established to be used in
> > writing.
>
> Along with other constructions exemplified in the same dictionary
> entry (<Them as thinks they can whup me jest come ahead> and <The
> car what hit him never stopped>), I wonder, and ask the
> connoisseurs of American English on the List, if this type of
> constructions isn't simply the product of an ignorance of English
> grammar. Are the above constructions used by all social groups in
> an geographic area, or are they the prerogative of the uneducated
> ones? Because my notion of a 'dialect' is that it can be spoken by
> all the members of the social fabric, including the educated ones
> (as is the case with Italian dialects).