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Old 05-14-2013, 03:48 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Akai View Post
Double negatives are particularly irksome, too - Pink Floyd comes to mind. "We don't need no education..."
I tend not to use double negatives myself, but they are an acceptable grammatical construct. Double negatives are used for emphasis. You should not use boolean logic when parsing English.

But "I could care less" is just wrong.

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