**’If We Left, They Wouldn’t Have Nobody’ (Abandoned Assisted Living Home in CA)**
Double negative in the headline — wouldn’t nobody which means that they would have somebody.
Reporters!!!Argh!!
Well that is how the person spoke so it was a quote of one of the men.
Probably a direct quote. Also, I remember from studying Spanish, that, in that language, a double negative is no problem. It just reinforces what you are saying. It does not reverse it. If the quote was from a Spanish speaker, it’s still a problem in English, but at least it’s an understandable error.