tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 30 12:49:00 2009
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Re: Double negatives
- From: Christopher Doty <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Double negatives
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:47:59 -0800
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Whew, okay. I thought he was saying that the double negative means
the affirmative... Which would be silly.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:41, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Christopher Doty wrote:
>> 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:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> 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".....???
>
> You're both saying the same thing, but you don't realize it. Christopher
> meant that if you hear someone utter "I never want no pie," it would be
> rendered in Standard English as "I never want any pie."
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