The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83282   Message #1530533
Posted By: GUEST,Blind Boy Grunt
28-Jul-05 - 05:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: tall people
Subject: RE: BS: tall people
You're right, Mudguard, as regards proper written English, but not in English folk music. In English folk music a double negation IS a negation, same as in Spanish.

"We don't need no tallll people" in a song means "We don't need any tallll people". That's folk music.