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To: Sir Gawain
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).

9 posted on 07/25/2002 7:43:44 AM PDT by monkey
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To: monkey
This is Satire
10 posted on 07/25/2002 7:48:37 AM PDT by mj1234
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To: monkey
No it ain't.
11 posted on 07/25/2002 7:51:27 AM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: monkey
Double negatives have a long and illustrious history in English also. Shakespeare used them. Then some got the erroneous idea that language is math and two no's equal a yes. That sterile attitude robbed the language of much of its richness.
23 posted on 07/25/2002 10:03:17 AM PDT by LarryLied
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To: monkey
The so-called double negative is a common and natural grammatical form (in French, ne {verb} pas, for example).

Yeah, in Japanese too. English is the only language I know that can use the double negative to imply a stronger negative rather than a postive...
32 posted on 07/25/2002 10:35:35 AM PDT by Stone Mountain
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