词汇 | double negatives |
词源 | double negatives. Though considered ungrammatical, double negatives such as, “I ain’t seen nobody” are common in both American and British English. Americans in various regions also use triple negatives (“I ain’t got nary none”), quadruple negatives (“That boy ain’t never done nothin’ nohow”), and even quintuple negatives (“I ain’t never seen no men of no kind do no washin’). In fact, there is nothing new about multiple negatives, which were standard in English through the time of Shakespeare. |
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