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Re: Double negatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Koske)
Mon Nov 30 15:11:22 2009
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:09:49 -0500
From: Eric Koske <krenath@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>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.
Um, no.
That's common English. We're talking about Standard English.
