Even in Spanish, some double negatives are underestood as negatives, like “I didn’t do anything” (yo no hice nada)
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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
There are languages (e.g. Spanish) where a double negative is still understood as a positive.
Standard varieties of English aren’t among them, but some dialects are.
The same is also true in German.
Danitos@reddthat.com 1 year ago
CiderApplenTea@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How would that work in German? I’m trying to figure it out, but can’t come up with anything
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
in some Austrian/Bavarian dialects people say things like “i hob koa Gööd ned” which translated word-for-word to Standard German is “ich habe kein Geld nicht”.
CiderApplenTea@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh sure! I’ve heard that before, I wouldn’t say it’s common though. Thanks for expanding!