Hello Thomas,
> In Spanish, the double negative is used to express the simple
> negative: "el no me dice nada" - literally, "he doesn't tell me
> nothing" - means, of course, "he doesn't tell me anything".
As I am not on TBOT (at least for the moment) I'll make a further
comment here.
You seem
Monday, August 12, 2002, 7:16:05 PM, you wrote:
TF> What I am saying is that the double negative should be avoided in
TF> English, as otherwise nobody won't understand nothing! ;-)
That's about what they told me when I was in school .. but
they put it considerably more strongly than that :-)
Hello Clemens,
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 00:15:25 +0200 GMT (13/08/02, 05:15 +0700 GMT),
Clemens 'Gullevek' Schwaighofer wrote:
CGS> Be careful with double negative, for me as a viennese it can mean
CGS> something double bad, and not make it okay ...
Speaking of double negatives, there is different u
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