| 词源 |
ain’t never seen no men-folks of no kind do no washing nohow. A forceful example of the use of the double negative heard in the Ozark mountains. Though considered ignorant to- day, such double negatives have strong links with Elizabethan England, when the double negative was simply employed as a stronger, more effective negative. Shakespeare, in fact, wrote: “Thou hast spoken no word all this while, nor understood none neither.” |