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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Thanks for reminding me of folks for whom English isn't their native language (and there are many here). 
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." |
Er, I know quite well about "double negative" (hey I'm in university already!!), what I wanted to say was why they said "I didn't do
nothing" instead of "I didn't do
anything"! So I thought you were misleading me
Thus, I said after that: "modern grammar is a mess"
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Originally Posted by amward
Not just those whose mother tongue is not English, there would be very few Australian school children who know what a double negative is and probably not many young adults.
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I think they all know about it, 2 no make a yes, or sort of, I just wanted to know why they use "wrong" grammar structure
intentionally 