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[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Reminds me how annoying it is when English speakers use "ain't no" in a sentence.

Which is just a double negative that practically almost always means the opposite of what they mean.

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Double negatives affirming one another instead of negating is a common thing in language, known as "emphatic negation" or "negative concord". Middle English used emphatic negation and various English dialects still use it to this day including African-American English. They're saying exactly what they mean, just not in Standard English. Just like they're probably not pronouncing the words the same way. No reason to get annoyed.

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