NancyLebovitz comments on Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Will_Newsome 04 June 2010 04:08PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 June 2010 03:52:23PM 2 points [-]

I think of "ain't" as either standard in some dialects, or as a tool for emphasis in standard English (usually spoken rather than written).

It seems reasonable that if you're using informal English for emphasis, then it's stylistically consistent to use the sort of colloquial mangled Latin that an English speaker who doesn't know Latin would use.