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Can't n'I? (can't nye)

Rhymes with "slant eye." Me thinks they mean to say, "Can't I?"

e.g.  "Mom, why can't n'I get some pork rinds fer the ride home from the Wal-Mart?"

It's the old attack of the double negative.  Literally translated: "Cannot I not I?"  This type of diction tends to send me into a Bobby Boucher "medulla oblongota" fit.

see "irregardless"