Heard on Judge Joe Brown:

[Dennis Preston]

Wilson,

All these negatives are still within one clause; this don't get cool
til multiple negation reaches across clauses.

dInIs



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>The obvious response:
>"No shit!!!"
>(the other) doug
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>Spoken on today's Judge Joe by a black woman in the mid-twenties or so:
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>"Didn't no kid ride no bicycle into no house!"
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of English
Morrill Hall 15-C
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48864 USA

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