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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:31:36PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> In standard, formal English, that's correct. |
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> However, in some English dialects, a double-negatve does not equate to |
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> a positive. A double negative is simply a stronger negative. For |
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> example, "don't do nothing" is a stronger, more emphatic version of |
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> "don't do anything". Languages like that have "negative concord". |
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> Old and Middle English were that way, and some modern dialects of |
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> English are that way. |
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This is incorrect -- "don't do nothing", do not _do_nothing_ means "do _something_", and "don't do |
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anything" means just what it says, "Do not do _anything_". |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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