In my car, every grocery store, Jo-Ann's, Ikea. (see first post)
Funnily enough, she doesn't follow me at Lai Thai or Bombay Grocers.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
I ain't gonna see nobody nowhere. (My diatribe on double negatives)
I HATE THE IMPROPER USE OF DOUBLE NEGATIVES!!!!!!
There I said it.
Yup, the improper use of double negatives is a spur up my grammatical buttocks. For those of you unfamiliar with the term double negatives, it's when you use one negative (such as not) and then use another word which implies negation (nobody, nothing, nowhere, no how) so that in fact is means a positive (I haven't seen nobody really means I have seen everybody or anybody.).
Now Michiganders use this AAAAAALLLLLLL the time and they actually think this is proper English!!! I get so irritated when walking through the grocery store listening to people tell other people that they "ain't been nowhere, seen nothing, done nothing.", etc. What happened in Michigan to steer their grammatical boat to the wasteland of bad grammar?
There I said it.
Yup, the improper use of double negatives is a spur up my grammatical buttocks. For those of you unfamiliar with the term double negatives, it's when you use one negative (such as not) and then use another word which implies negation (nobody, nothing, nowhere, no how) so that in fact is means a positive (I haven't seen nobody really means I have seen everybody or anybody.).
Now Michiganders use this AAAAAALLLLLLL the time and they actually think this is proper English!!! I get so irritated when walking through the grocery store listening to people tell other people that they "ain't been nowhere, seen nothing, done nothing.", etc. What happened in Michigan to steer their grammatical boat to the wasteland of bad grammar?
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