Thread: Ain't She Sweet?

What means "Ain't She Sweet" phrase in a title of The_Beatles' song (from "The Early Tapes Of The Beatles" album)?

Ну разве она не мила?!

Originally Posted by Ramil

Ну разве она не мила?!

значит Ain't переводится "разве не"...

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Жэнтос

Originally Posted by Ramil

Ну разве она не мила?!

значит Ain't переводится "разве не"...

Thanks.

Приблизительно.
В общем случае ain't = am not или is not или have not, но возможны варианты.

Вообще лучше вот это почитать:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain’t

Или вот это:
http://aolsvc.merriam-webster.aol.com/dictionary/ain't

Thanks a lot

It means "isn't she sweet?" The word "ain't", while grammatically incorrect, makes this a rhetorcial question i.e. it's well understood that she is sweet.

Originally Posted by sperk

It means "isn't she sweet?" The word "ain't", while grammatically incorrect, makes this a rhetorcial question i.e. it's well understood that she is sweet.

And then "be not"="ben't" is also possible, though also grammatically incorrect, isn't it?

Originally Posted by Жэнтос

Originally Posted by sperk

It means "isn't she sweet?" The word "ain't", while grammatically incorrect, makes this a rhetorcial question i.e. it's well understood that she is sweet.

And then "be not"="ben't" is also possible, though also grammatically incorrect, isn't it?

No, that's definately not possible.

Originally Posted by Жэнтос

And then "be not"="ben't" is also possible, though also grammatically incorrect, isn't it?

Although I have never seen "ben't" until now, back in the 1600s it was used:

During the Restoration period--after 1660--we begin to find the first printed evidence of several negative contractions . . . [s]everal of these contractions look unfamiliar now: ben't, an't, en't, han't--these have either been replaced by other, newer contractions or have simply gone out of use.

The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories (1991) http://tiny.cc/sj7tc (also includes the history of "ain't" if you are interested)

[quote=Ken Watts][quote="Жэнтос":325hbiz1]And then "be not"="ben't" is also possible, though also grammatically incorrect, isn't it?[/quote]Although I have never seen "ben't" until now, back in the 1600s it was used:
[quote]During the Restoration period--after 1660--we begin to find the first printed evidence of several negative contractions . . . [s]everal of these contractions look unfamiliar now: [i][color=red]ben't[/color], an't, en't, han't[/i]--these have either been replaced by other, newer contractions or have simply gone out of use.[/quote]The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories (1991) [url="http://tiny.cc/sj7tc"]http://tiny.cc/sj7tc[/url] (also includes the history of "ain't" if you are interested)[/quote:325hbiz1]

I think that "ben't" probably went out of usage due to the fact that most English speakers use the phrase "do not be" rather than "be not"

Example: "Be not sad" vs. "Do not be sad"

Just a guess though.