idea: once you know the rules, you can bend them...
application: we know that is not a word.. however, we know the meaning of "perfection" - the root word - we know that "ist" is a suffix denoting a personal quality.. and that the two can be put together.. we also know that "ally" refers to a practice or state of being.. and that it is a correct suffix... so, technically, one in the know *could* use it as a word =p
Ain't would be... according to my definition... a contraction of the words Aren't and Isn't. I base this on it's usage and how it's only used in circumstances that the appropriate word to use would be either of those two.
Ex. This isn't the right direction. This ain't the right direction.
Ex. We aren't leaving yet. We ain't leaving yet.
I have yet to find an example and/or other words to which this does or does not apply -_-;;;
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application: we know that is not a word.. however, we know the meaning of "perfection" - the root word - we know that "ist" is a suffix denoting a personal quality.. and that the two can be put together.. we also know that "ally" refers to a practice or state of being.. and that it is a correct suffix... so, technically, one in the know *could* use it as a word =p
(ps, "ain't" is in the dictionary now =p)
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Ex. This isn't the right direction.
This ain't the right direction.
Ex. We aren't leaving yet.
We ain't leaving yet.
I have yet to find an example and/or other words to which this does or does not apply -_-;;;
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