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That persons resort to such strange usages of language is silly. You are, of course, using 'silly' in its correct meaning of 'blessed.'
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Silly conventions are just that: silly.
"Language is a system of silly conventions from outer space." Lori Borgia Driveway or Parkway? (1961).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Why do you park in a driveway, but drive on a parkway? - Steven Wright
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You remind me a lot of Curinor, B.C. Y'all two should hook up. Hang in there: to me, anyway, a precocious 19-year-old language pedant beats the hell out of a kid who can only spell txt-wise.
btw, 'sup with the hyphen in nine-teen? I'm quite the fan of hyphens, but.
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"My mother constantly yells at me when I tell her double negatives are horrid. If she knew the word, she might call me a pedant. 'You know what I mean, all the same. Just shut up!'"
Ouch!
"...constantly yells at me when I tell her double negatives are horrid." Then stop saying that within her hearing. And consider that you are opting for your version of English and ignoring the musicality of American regional speech and the wonderous aptness of many social dialects.
If she knew the word, she might call me a pedant.
Mercy! Surely you don't really intend to demean your Mother's intelligence. After all, she probably provided your first exposure to speech and language.
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Logical multiple negative:
I couldn't fail to disagree with you.
Emphatic multiple negative:
I don't like to have to kill nobody without they ain't no chance of no gold in it for me.
Test question:
Which one of the above did you understand?
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Not neither of them.
If tha ag-yahment fer mua th'n one negat've in a setnce is th't one cuh still undastand 'em, then wha' w' stop ery otha peh-son fum duh-velupping uh di'lect uh thur own?
Language will not survive with an excuse like that.
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then wha' w' stop ery otha peh-son fum duh-velupping uh di'lect uh thur own? A less than convincing argument from someone who insists on using his own dialect. (^_^)
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A dialect with one speaker is usually called an ideolect. "A language is a dialect with an army or a navy." If English survived the great vowel shift, it can survive your ideolect.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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... wha' w' stop ery otha peh-son fum duh-velupping uh di'lect uh thur own? Communication. Some languages require the emphatic multiple negative. My point is that the emphatic multiple negative is more understandable than the logical multiple negative. And my example of the logical multiple negative should have been "I couldn't fail to disagree with you less." If you can handle a language so corrupt that the adjectives don't agree with their nouns in case, number, and gender, then you can handle a couple of spare negatives scattered about here and there.
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