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Old 07-29-2011, 08:21 PM   #376
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Old 07-29-2011, 08:37 PM   #377
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Old 08-03-2011, 07:10 AM   #380
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Old 08-03-2011, 10:44 AM   #381
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The mind boggles at all those inter-spaced double-negatives. So we should always park there, right?
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Old 08-03-2011, 12:24 PM   #382
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The mind boggles at all those inter-spaced double-negatives. So we should always park there, right?
Speaking of double negatives... why are they saying "I don't know nothing" now, esp. the youth? "I don't owe you nothing"?
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Old 08-03-2011, 01:13 PM   #383
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Speaking of double negatives... why are they saying "I don't know nothing" now, esp. the youth? "I don't owe you nothing"?
When they say that to their parents, they're usually right. In fact, they're right when they say that about a lot of things.
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Old 08-03-2011, 01:17 PM   #384
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When they say that to their parents, they're usually right. In fact, they're right when they say that about a lot of things.
To people whose mother tongues aren't English, you're really confusing them

Luckily I already knew about your sarcasm.

Modern grammar is a mess!
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Old 08-03-2011, 01:26 PM   #385
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To people whose mother tongues aren't English, you're really confusing them

Luckily I already knew about your sarcasm.

Modern grammar is a mess!
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."
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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."
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.
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The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to Anglo-Saxon Protestant values and controlled by the Pope in Rome.
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The origin of the "Know Nothing" term was in the semi-secret organization of the party. When a member was asked about its activities, he was supposed to reply, "I know nothing."
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Old 08-03-2011, 07:40 PM   #388
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Old 08-03-2011, 08:00 PM   #389
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To people whose mother tongues aren't English, you're really confusing them

Luckily I already knew about your sarcasm.

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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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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.
True.
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