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double negatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon May 18 22:24:00 1992
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Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: mosquito@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Mon, 18 May 92 21:30:03 -0400
Double negatives occur all over the place. Spanish. Russian.
Bulgarian. Serbo-Croatian. In each of these languages, it is
required. Also, note that it's very common for English-speaking
children to make lots of mistakes by using double negatives.
After talking with native speakers in each of these languages, they
insist that they have never heard of the reverse problem, that is,
a Croatian child saying, "I don't see anything" instead of "I don't
see nothing". This seems to indicate that there is something more
"natural" about double negatives.
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!! Kev
