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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
For those of you who didn't grow up speaking English all your lives, a "double-negative" results in a positive. Thus, if someone were to say, "I don't never do that," what they're really saying is, "I always do that," and in like manner, when someone says, "I don't owe you nothing," they're really saying, "I owe something to you."
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True, but that's not their intent.
If they say "I didn't do nothing" (which really means "I did do something"), they
mean that they didn't do anything.