A double negative... |
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Votes: 369
Comments: 9
Added: August 2003
| Willbut - 5th September 2003 18:24 |
| It's usally negative, but it doesn't have to be always. |
| Stunz - 25th September 2003 01:58 |
| Heard in a coffee bar: "These days you don't never get nuthing for nuthing." Damn right, too! |
| Red5 - 1st November 2003 18:21 |
| You ain't wrong there. ;-) |
| Willbut - 9th November 2003 21:36 |
| "Two negatives can be negative or positive, but two positives can never be negative.' 'Yeah, right.' |
| cutie - 19th November 2003 10:46 |
| old english: (-) * (-) = + new english: (-) * (-) = dramatically error =) |
| Joan - 2nd December 2003 15:30 |
| Shakespeare used them with a negative meaning. |
| Don - 3rd October 2004 02:21 |
| 'This project ain't going nowhere.' 'You're wrong- it isn't going nowhere.' The first is negative, the second positive. |
| MrTrilby - 31st January 2006 20:57 |
| Joan, Shakespeare died 400 years ago; things have moved on. It's a negative, however the speaker rarely intends for it to be. "This project ain't going nowhere" means this project is going somewhere. The speaker means the opposite. |
| TopHat - 22nd November 2006 09:57 |
| I don't agree, Mr Trilby. The first speaker means that the project isn't going anywhere. It's the second speaker who disagrees |
