[Sir Gawain]

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[AppyPappy]

He didn't beat no damn body. Leave him alone.

[dirtboy]

Basketball star Allen Iverson has reportedly just confessed to charges of beating and threatening to kill his girlfriend, according to Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham, and will be taken to trial "as soon as possible".

The Philly D.A.'s office also once charged Don Adams with assaulting the fists of Teamsters with his face. Unfortunately, that was no satire...

[Cyber Liberty]

You realize, don't you, that a significant minority of FReepers are going to "loose" it when they read this grammar storry

[sandydipper]

I ain't never understood the proper use of a double negative!

[monkey]

Language, someone said, is a dialect with an army and navy.

The so-called double negative is a common and natural grammatical form (in French, ne {verb} pas, for example).

[Randjuke]

The Philadelphia DA's office needs to hire Barbara Billingsley, the "rap translator" from the movie Airplane to assist in interrogations.

[dead]

This wasn't not funny.

[mhking]

Black conservative ping

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[Texaggie79]

HA

[Procyon]

Does this esplane why there is a disapportionment number of "Black English" speakers in the American penal system?

[twigs]

A problem here is that the woman in question is not his girlfriend. She's his wife.

[breakem]

I don't dislike your post.

[Wallaby]

There's a famous story about the topic of double negatives involving Sidney Morganbesser, a philosopher known for his ability to refute by counterexample.

About 30 years ago, a linguist was giving a talk at the MLA in which he claimed that a double negative can form a positive in English, while remaining a negative in other languages. By contrast, he continued, "there is no language in which a double positive forms a negative." From the back of the room, Morganbesser gave his famous retort: "Yeah, yeah!"

(variation of retort: "Yeah, right!")

[Chad Fairbanks]

I ain't never had no trouble with no double negatives. My problem tends to be my dangling participle...

[Young Werther]

I didn't get no education!

[Fintan]

I ain't got nothing to say about this so's don't none of you youse reply.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Being able to say "I ain't done nothing." is a requirement for being on COPS.