The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #106990   Message #2216068
Posted By: Peace
15-Dec-07 - 03:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Graduate students who can't write
Subject: RE: BS: Graduate students who can't write
English is confusing enough without adding to the confusion by not learning various conventions of the written language. We talk in a time when "I don't want no potatoes, thank you" means the same as "I don't want any potatoes, thank you." Shakespeare used double negatives occasionally, and Mick Jagger brought it back into usage when he said, "I can't get no satisfaction." I don't know where I was intending to go with this line of thought,