RonBee
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Re: Is this right?
There are those that say that double negatives are not logical, but they follow their own logic in the dialects that use them.
Unfortunately, prescriptivists have had way too much influence and have led us to disparage our own language or speakers of that language.
:-(
:up:I think that Soup's wonderfully concise and simple summary from page 1 of this thread deserves repeating:
And now I ain't got no need to say nothing more about it. ;-)
- Do people say it? Yes.
- Is it considered Standard English? No.
There are those that say that double negatives are not logical, but they follow their own logic in the dialects that use them.
Unfortunately, prescriptivists have had way too much influence and have led us to disparage our own language or speakers of that language.
:-(