[323] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: wa'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon May 18 20:54:19 1992
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: guentbru@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Bruce Guenter)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Mon, 18 May 92 17:56:25 CST
In-Reply-To: <9205182121.AA10725@ima.ima.isc.com>; from "MAPLE::BANG" at May 18
>
> in reply to the subject of double negatives:
> ...
> Now, perhaps my roomate is correct, or maybe he is totally wrong...
> I dunno, but if he's right then there is precedent for multi-negatives used
> to mean a negative, and not a positive.
>
I post my $0.02 here: In a recent linguistics class, I was told that many
(less formal) dialects of English use double negation to indicate a more
emphatic negative.
Bruce
