tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 30 12:10:43 2009
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Re: Double negatives
- From: Eric Koske <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Double negatives
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:09:49 -0500
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Christopher Doty <[email protected]>wrote:
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> In no dialect of English does "I never want no pie" mean "I always want
> pie." "I never want no pie" = "I never want any pie" in Standard English.
Um, no.
That's common English. We're talking about Standard English.
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