Comment on Why do people say things like "I didn't do nothing"?
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
American English has three languages that we do most of our cultural trade with.
- Commonwealth English
- Mexican Spanish
- Franciscan French
In both of the latter, multiple casual negative modifiers are additive instead of inverting. That is, they have the semantics of “bad” instead of “not.”.
Consider :
“i do not not want a million dollars”
and
“That is a bad, bad cookie.”