[Lazamataz]

“I know ten times as much as someone who doesn’t know nothing.”

Well, mathematically that means you know nothing.

10 x 0 = 0.

@ought-six: Nossir. Look closely at Leep's sentence. He knows ten times as much as someone who doesn't know nothing

That means that the knowledge is non-zero. It is not nothing.

Ergo, the math reads more correctly as: 10 x NonZeroNumber = 10NonZeroNumber.

@Leep: You crafty son-of-a-bitch, you. 😊

[ought-six]

Yes, you’re right if one is speaking grammatically.

However, the proper use of grammar is something that is alien to most Americans; and the double negative has become so accepted in the American lexicon that when one encounters it, one assumes the intent was not a negation, but rather an affirmation.

I posit that Leep’s intent was the latter.

Isn’t this fun?