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Re: Double negatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Doty)
Mon Nov 30 15:24:20 2009
In-Reply-To: <bd15d7f60911301209j5d855bd8y201f704e25906c43@mail.gmail.com>
From: Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:21:22 -0800
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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".....???
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:09, Eric Koske <krenath@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> Um, no.
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> That's common English. We're talking about Standard English.
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