September 23rd, 2012 at 3:53AM

Did you know?

golden-zephyr:

estifi:

In Old and Middle English, double negation was the norm?

Next time someone tells me that I can’t use double negatives, I’ll tell them that we ain’t no Latin speakers and we ain’t got no use for Latin grammar rules in my language.

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    FYI: The grammatical rule proscribing double negatives does not actually arise from Latin. It developed out of a...
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    I LOVE a good double negative. Incidentally, some of the best destroyers of Language Police I’ve ever encountered were...
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    Waaa I want a source for this fact!
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