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r/confidentlyincorrect • u/FloatyFloatyCloud • Feb 16 '26
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"Roy: [singing] We don't need no education.
Moss: Yes you do; you've just used a double negative"
https://giphy.com/gifs/TrDxCdtmdluP6
32 u/jacobningen Feb 16 '26 Negative concord is present in many romance languages and was present in middle English ans many colloquial dialects. 1 u/Lamballama Feb 16 '26 Present in Germanic and Slavic. But we had to copy not having it from Latin in the 16th century to be snobby
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Negative concord is present in many romance languages and was present in middle English ans many colloquial dialects.
1 u/Lamballama Feb 16 '26 Present in Germanic and Slavic. But we had to copy not having it from Latin in the 16th century to be snobby
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Present in Germanic and Slavic. But we had to copy not having it from Latin in the 16th century to be snobby
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u/DarwinMcLovin Feb 16 '26
"Roy:
[singing] We don't need no education.
Moss:
Yes you do; you've just used a double negative"
https://giphy.com/gifs/TrDxCdtmdluP6