[330] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: wa'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue May 19 10:57:15 1992
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: lagrone@flopn3.csc.ti.com (Training is ESSENTIAL!)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Cc: LAGRONE@flopn3.csc.ti.com
Date: Tue, 19 May 1992 07:18:16 -0500
>>
>> 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.
>
Yes, from my childhood, I recall hearing -- from my Grandfather (?), the
words: "Yeah, there ain't never been such a storm as that one!"
...David LaGrone
lagrone@flonp2.dseg.ti.com
David LaGrone
Texas Instruments, Inc.
[DISCLAIMER: All of my comments are to be attributable to me alone.]
