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Recently I was exposed to a lot of uses of "She don't + infinitive" (3rd person singular + don't), instead of "she doesn't + infinitive" (3rd person singular + doesn't). I'm not sure if it is a mistake or just accepted usage sometimes.

I found it in a very famous songs such as:

"She don't know me" by Bon Jovi enter image description here

Also in Stan- by Eminem (in 3:04)

But she don't know you like I know you Slim, no one does
She don't know what it was like for people like us growin' up, you gotta call me man
I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose
Sincerely yours, Stan, P.S. we should be together too

You can find a lot more by searching in you tube "he don't" or "she don't".

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If you aspire to be understood in the disadvantaged areas of urban centers in places like Detroit, then pop song lyrics are an excellent source of usages. However, if your ambition is to be perceived as someone who can speak English in an academic or business environment, then you should forget about pop song lyrics. They are not written for an educated audience. Yes, some English speakers do say "She don't know..." These persons will not be interviewing you for a job, though, or deciding whether you are admitted to university. – P. E. Dant Nov 3 at 2:58
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From the Beatles' Don't Let Me Down, "...And if somebody loved me like she do me Oh, she do me, yes, she does Don't let me down, don't let me down Don't let me down, don't let me down..." there are many of these, because songwriters need good syllabic count and rhythm. – shin Nov 3 at 4:19
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Do pop singers in your first language sing in correct grammar? Will you secure good employment in your own country by speaking as your own pop songs speak? – P. E. Dant 2 days ago
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Any native speaker will understand exactly what you are saying when you say this. The grammar nazis will not approve, though. – Kik 2 days ago
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There is something to be said about song lyrics, the OP cites two fairly recent songs, while @Makoto Kato cites two songs from the 1960s. I read somewhere, God knows where, that song writers prefer using "she don't" and "he don't" because they fit better in the metre, and they are easier to find rhymes with. There's probably a lot of truth in that. – Mari-Lou A 2 days ago

You should understand that, in school, you will be taught a certain kind of "formal" (or "standard") English, much the same as what native English speakers are taught. This is not necessarily the same English that many people actually speak. A regional or cultural style of language that is different from the "standard" is called a vernacular.

Vernacular isn't wrong or bad English. It's just different English, although it may be associated with a particular social class or culture or even ethnicity, and it may not be appropriate to use in every situation.

"She don't" is one such example. To some people, this is perfectly normal English, and clearly it's OK to use it in music or poetry. But because it's not "correct" grammar, people who use it might be considered lower-class or uneducated. It's usually not OK to use it on a school paper, or in business, and definitely not OK to use it if you aren't familiar enough with the vernacular to make it sound natural.

Remember, there is a fine line between imitation and mockery.

Personally, I would never say "she don't" -- unless I was trying to imitate that vernacular. Which I do, from time to time.

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The OP asks not "is this usage idiomatic?" nor "do some people use this construction to sound as if they are also disadvantaged?" but rather "is this considered correct?" The OP does not ask whether the usage is "wrong" or "bad" but whether or not it is correct. – P. E. Dant Nov 3 at 5:44
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@P.E.Dant Mr Pedunt, native speakers don't do incorrect grammar. They just have different grammars. The grammar that you are talking about is just a particular language variety which is used by powerful people. That's all. It's not more 'correct' than others. – Araucaria 2 days ago
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It may be diplomatically correct and nicely non-violent to say it's merely different and not wrong, but it can also be helpful to acknowledge that there are real and common stigmas against using "non-formal" forms which are often associated with lack of education and by (perhaps bigoted) association with stigmatized populations (e.g. hillbilly, ghetto). The "logic" of the stigma, it seems to me, is about it being wrong, and the speaker either not knowing that, or angrily not caring. Or, as you nicely point out, may be taken an mocking (e.g. affecting or scripting an ignorant style). – Dronz 2 days ago
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In school people are taught standard English, not formal English. – Alan Carmack 2 days ago
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@Araucaria Mr Aracurio, of course there is no commissariat that decrees what speech is permitted, and of course everything is relative, and so on and so on. These observations are trivial and not germane to my point. This questioner obviously knows that constructions like this one are used every day by millions of people. Everybody knows that without being informed by you, me, or anyone at ELL. What he asked, it seems to me, is whether she don't is ever considered so correct as to be acceptable in, say, a paper on herpetology. Pack up your soapbox, you radical you. – P. E. Dant 2 days ago

3d-person singular don't is quite common and unremarkable in speech communities where formal correctness is not held in particular esteem. It should not disturb you.

But it's not acceptable in communities where formal correctness is valued; and since doesn't will not mark you as a pedant or an outsider in any speech community, there is no reason why you should make any effort at all to emulate the informal use.

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Your question is clear and concise, and warrants a clear and concise answer, without equivocation:

Is “she don't” sometimes considered correct form?

The answer to that question is:

No.

The construction she don't is never considered to be "correct form."

It may be acceptable, or part of a vernacular, or idiomatic in some communities (and employed both by those in whose dialect it is a natural utterance and by songwriters who pretend to be conversant with such dialects for financial reasons) but your question does not introduce any of these qualifications. You ask whether "she don't" is sometimes considered correct form.

The verb do is an irregular verb. While there are a multitude of idiomatic or vernacular conjugations of this (and of many other) English verbs, there is only one correct conjugation of do in the present tense, and it is:

I do
you (singular) do
he/she/it does
we do
you do
they do

Thus, the only correct negative form in the present tense with the feminine third person singular pronoun is:

She does not (doesn't)

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There is no such thing as "correct" in language. There is only what people say, and what they don't say, and that can be highly context-dependent. In this case, "she don't" is used in certain contexts and not others, and that would be the clear and concise answer. – zwol 2 days ago
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@zwol I think this is meant to assail pedantry but it climbs to a whole new level of pedantry. It's meta-pedantic. There is a normal form of English that is taught in school and is common to British, American, and Indian English (at least.) Based on those rules, "she don't" is incorrect grammar. In the absence of a specified dialect (i.e. set of rules) it's this standard we have to assume. – JimmyJames 2 days ago
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+1 for prescriptive language. When learning another language, one should always learn the conventional grammar, especially verb conjugations and agreement. This is because when you learn a language, you should be learning a system so that you understand how the language works, not just arbitrary phrases. Vernacular should be learned too, but with the understanding that it bends/breaks the rules of the system, and why. Without prescriptive language, vernacular means learning more than one way of saying something without understanding why. Whether it's "correct" will always be debated. – automaton 2 days ago
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@automaton You get it! As for the word correct, we have to have some way to refer to that standard. We could call it franisee, for all I care, but as it happens we have standardized on correct. Really, when I see such heat on the subject as displayed above, I have to wonder whether we are observing the fruit of unresolved conflicts with the third grade teachers who rapped knuckles to punish the utterance "ain't!" – P. E. Dant 2 days ago
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@zwol When I learned French, I thank my stars that the people who taught me made sure that I could conjugate irregular verbs, and understood tense and number, and spent no time at all on registers. I had time for that later, and I think the OP here is in a similar position. He just wants to know what is considered standard, and yes, correct usage. I think that if you were to ask most of the speakers whose vernacular includes things like she don't, they would agree that it is "incorrect" grammar, and allow as how they don't give a fig. Neither do I! – P. E. Dant 2 days ago

What the other respondents fail to mention is that there is a whole dialect in American English (i.e., black inner-city English), that uses "don't" in the third person singular as a matter of course.

Although you can hear that, and things like it, in practically every rap or hip-hop track put down recently, and nearly every rock song since the '50s—including the one you cite—its pedigree goes back well before that. Here's a song from 1931 by Duke Ellington ("It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing") that perfectly illustrates the license that black English takes. And note that it has every right to do so.

There's more to English than sounding educated.

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It's not really taking any license. That only makes sense if there's some standard, correct English it checked out a license from. – djechlin 12 hours ago

"She don't" would be vernacular and I think any English speaker understands it fine and many English speakers prefer to speak that way. However, it is not business English, and if you are a language learner I would not use it. I would not say it is "correct", i.e. it would be a mistake in any written English exam or paper.

The best way to understand how it is used is to listen to people who use it. Song lyrics are a start (but note there's a chance the songwriter just wants "don't" to fit the meter, and "doesn't" does not).

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"She don't" is incorrect english grammar. It's true, as many have pointed out, that it's in use in many different contexts where correct grammar is unimportant. But the OP is trying to understand the language, not make value judgements. As a learner of Italian, I don't want to know about the dialects spoken by 70% of the population. I have enough trouble learning the primary language. But I do want to know when I hear things that sound wrong that they might be due to dialect influences. And I need to understand the difference.

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