The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89383   Message #1686216
Posted By: Windsinger
06-Mar-06 - 02:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Etymology, Semantics
Subject: RE: BS: Etymology, Semantics
Double negatives used to be perfectly acceptable standard English. Chaucer and Shakespeare are riddled with them.

It's only in more recent centuries that they became unfashionable and "wrong."

Slán,

~Fionn

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