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OneBrow speaks of negative concord, to which I refer you to the ultimate authority, Wikipedia. While I've seen a lot of sentences with double negatives (mostly those that cancel each other out), I cannot think of other words with double negatives that are used for emphasis. OneBrow, any examples come to mind?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative

In some languages, double negatives cancel one another and produce an affirmative sense; in other languages, doubled negatives intensify the negation. Languages where multiple negatives intensify each other are said to have negative concord. Portuguese, Persian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Spanish are examples of negative-concord languages, while Latin and German do not have negative concord. Standard English lacks negative concord, but it was normal in Old English and Middle English, and some modern dialects do have it (e.g. African American Vernacular English and Cockney), although its usage in English is often stigmatized.

Languages without negative concord typically have negative polarity items that are used in place of additional negatives when another negating word already occurs. Examples are "ever", "anything" and "anyone" in the sentence "I haven't ever owed anything to anyone" (cf. "I haven't never owed nothing to no one" in negative-concord dialects of English, and "Nunca devi nada a ninguém" in Portuguese, lit. "Never have I owed nothing to no one"). Note that negative polarity can be triggered not only by direct negatives such as "not" or "never", but by words such as "doubt" or "hardly" ("I doubt he has ever owed anything to anyone" or "He has hardly ever owed anything to anyone").

The prefix does not act on the suffix it acts on the root of the word.

Take the word disregarded. The -dis- does not undo the -ed- it modifies regard.

I know grammarians object to this but the English language had a long history of the use of double negatives and redundancy for emphasis before the 19th century. Shakespeare is a great example.

I prefer to align myself with those that are more liberal with the use of our language. people like Shakespeare, Jefferson, and Beyonce that weren't afraid to adopt words and make up new ones. Accepting new words is a way to flowerify our language.

Oh yeah "nonetheless" is the best I can think of off the top of my head. It's not a perfect example but it's a start.

 

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The prefix does not act on the suffix it acts on the root of the word.

Take the word disregarded. The -dis- does not undo the -ed- it modifies regard.

I know grammarians object to this but the English language had a long history of the use of double negatives and redundancy for emphasis before the 19th century. Shakespeare is a great example.

I prefer to align myself with those that are more liberal with the use of our language. people like Shakespeare, Jefferson, and Beyonce that weren't afraid to adopt words and make up new ones. Accepting new words is a way to flowerify our language.

Oh yeah "nonetheless" is the best I can think of off the top of my head. It's not a perfect example but it's a start.

Ya, right.






Double positive. Boom bitches?

 

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Not quite a boom. Maybe a poof?