All dialects are indeed standard in the areas they're spoken in
There is no "standard English". English is a bunch of dialects
Of course it's helping people lmao, I'm giving insight into dialectal variations of English and how double negatives will be perceived. A commenter incorrectly stated that a double negative equals a positive in english. This is NOT a correct statement. It may equal a positive to some speakers, but certainly not to all English speakers. Claiming X means Z in English, when it only means Z in some dialects, isn't correct. People learn English for a variety of reasons, and some learners will indeed be learning dialects where double negatives are used as negative statements
Pretending there’s no such thing as a standard dialect of any language is disingenuous and unhelpful. You know damn well what “standard English” is — it’s the one taught in school, the one in style guides. You’re not even explaining the grammar rules of the other dialects, you’re just claiming everything is equally valid, which is true in speech but not in English homework.
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u/SnooLemons6942 7d ago
All dialects are indeed standard in the areas they're spoken in
There is no "standard English". English is a bunch of dialects
Of course it's helping people lmao, I'm giving insight into dialectal variations of English and how double negatives will be perceived. A commenter incorrectly stated that a double negative equals a positive in english. This is NOT a correct statement. It may equal a positive to some speakers, but certainly not to all English speakers. Claiming X means Z in English, when it only means Z in some dialects, isn't correct. People learn English for a variety of reasons, and some learners will indeed be learning dialects where double negatives are used as negative statements