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Originally Posted By: morphememedleyI have to decide whether or not the irony is intentional.
It would depend partly on whether what the person didn't know was a grammatical fact and partly on whether the speaker had the emphatic multiple negative as part of their native dialect. In this partcular case, considering zmjezhd's status as a linguist of some note I would say that the irony was unquestionably intentional.
A loanword is a word that is taken unchanged from another language, e.g., schadenfreude from the German.
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