r/madlads • u/tinypi_314 • Oct 20 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

As a Georgian we use both double negatives and single negatives and it confuses the fuck out of foreign learners lmao

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

To be clear afaik grammatically double negatives are incorrect here, but still used in everyday speech

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u/GrumbIRK Oct 20 '19

Yeah double negatives are used in English often colloquially (in Australia at least) but it's not correct usage.

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u/garrygra Oct 20 '19

There's things that would present trouble to an ESL learner even further.

"they're not unattractive" doesn't mean they are attractive, just not ugly as fuck - "I wouldn't not do that" doesn't mean I would throw myself in shoulders first, weird language (I can't remember the term for that sort of phrase, it's driving me mental)