"Nobody doesn't like Sarah Lee"

Dennis R. Preston preston at MSU.EDU
Wed Jun 8 14:36:08 UTC 2005


Perfectly standard multiple negation; now, if she had said "Doesn't
nobody want to be...." that would have been a complete makeover of
another sort.

dInIs



>Heard on today's Maury Povich Show, spoken by a woman who'd had a
>complete makeover: "Nobody doesn't want to be with me, now!"
>
>-Wilson Gray


--
Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic,
        Asian and African Languages
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