LL-L "Grammar" 2011.03.10 (02) [EN]

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From: Mike Morgan <mwmbombay at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2011.03.08 (01) [EN]

and of course if you look at the rest of language as well, redundancy is
everywhere to be found... which among other things helps when there is
"noise"...



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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>

Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2011.03.09 (08) [EN]

Nearly all forms of English, with the excaption of Standard ones, tend use
multiple negatives.  The idea that "the negatives cancel each other out" is
a psuedo-mathematical argument that assumes the rule is a multiplication
anyway; when it is obviously additive.  "I ain't no way no how not gonna do
nuthin' like that" makes it quite clear that the speaker is being negative;
you don't have to go through all the negative words to work that out.

Paul

Derby

England



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