No deputy???

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bagzi94

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I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot no deputy.

I don't understand what he's trying to say. :roll:
 

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I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot no deputy.

I don't understand what he's trying to say. :roll:
He is probably trying to say that he did not shoot a deputy. The writer is suggesting, by the use of the double negative, that the speaker is uneducated.
 
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