Timeline for Are double negatives ever appropriate in English?
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| Jun 27, 2011 at 3:23 | history | edited | Thursagen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2011 at 2:45 | comment | added | Kosmonaut | I think you mean "e.g. Ebonics". Double negatives (or more specifically, negative concord) are used in many dialects outside of AAVE (AAVE being the current awkward euphemistic name for this dialect). | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:33 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I see nothing particularly archaic in "He is not an unpleasant man", and certainly the general format is perfectly normal today. It's not unlikely you might use it yourself, perhaps without even noticing. | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:28 | comment | added | rintaun | @Ham and Bacon: "No, it is never correct." That's a grammatical double negative right there. At least, more or less. | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:11 | comment | added | Thursagen | depends... which part was ironic? | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:11 | history | edited | Thursagen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:10 | comment | added | rintaun | Out of curiosity, was irony your intention? | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 1:05 | history | answered | Thursagen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |