2026-09-30 08:29 UTC
Double negatives are fun! It’s a little weird how, depending on the context and language, they can either be positive or negative. “I don’t see nothing!” is often used to mean you can’t see anything, the double negatives reinforce each other rather than cancel out into a positive meaning. Similar for “I don’t have no …” or “we don’t need no …”
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@dion_starfire@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-30 20:58
Satisfaction
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@ulterno@programming.dev 2026-10-01 01:48
I don’t see nothing! Isn’t this something that only means so, in the recently developed dialects? I mean if it were instead, “> I don’t see nothing.”, I would understand it as the person is actually seeing something.