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
To: monkey
This is Satire
10 posted on
07/25/2002 7:48:37 AM PDT by
mj1234
To: monkey
No it ain't.
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.
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...
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