tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 30 12:23:21 2009
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Re: Double negatives
- From: Christopher Doty <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Double negatives
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:21:22 -0800
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I don't really know what you're saying here... That "I never want no
pie" can be used to mean "I always want pie".....???
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:09, Eric Koske <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
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> Um, no.
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> That's common English. We're talking about Standard English.
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