Negative concord is incorrect in Standard English, yes, although not in all languages.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Or in all dialects of English.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You obviously don't know nothing about dialect.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I ain't give a care

by Anonymous 2 years ago

This is akin to when people say "I could care less". Oh, so you DO care. Or do you mean you COULDN'T care less?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I couldn't care less.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I always say could care less on accident lol

by Anonymous 2 years ago

That's because you say the original version and not the bastardized version that's been changed through language in slang overtime

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Oh that's cool to hear

by Anonymous 2 years ago

If you find that cool. I'd suggest looking into etymology some. It's the study of words and languages and how they change over time.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Will I find out where the word "Rizz" came from. I would like to punch the creator

by Anonymous 2 years ago

What's the definition and where did you hear it from? I can probably help figure that out.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You don't know that term? It's like a tik tok slang word for the ability to attract woman with out trying. I hate it so much.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So it's a super recent slang/jargon term probably created on or just before TikTok. Sounds to me like a similar use of the word king referring to any man in the past like 3 to 5 years yeah agree it sounds dumb. Also, women that just make Rizz another word for attractive, because being attractive get you a member of the preferred sex without you having to do anything

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Super recent haha, It's pretty cringe (another word I hate but couldn't think of a different word to use)

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Couldn't care less is grammatically correct though, could care less implies you still care

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I never said, couldn't care less is incorrect. Dot I merely said it is the bastardize version of could care less which is the original phrase. I'm a descriptivist not a prescriptivist

by Anonymous 2 years ago

what? Merriam Webster confirms that "could not care less" is the original and correct phrase, but "could care less" has been a common variant for a long time and is acceptable since the meaning is understood. the only slang is the "couldn't" contraction from "could not"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Alright, guess i miss remember.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Double negatives aren't proper English.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

There's nothing to correct. In some regional dialects double negatives are emphatic and in others they're positive. It's not wrong to be speaking in a different regional dialect from you.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

No, it's always wrong. Just because the speakers of a certain language are too stupid to figure out what their utterances mean doesn't make it correct.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I like you.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

My regional dialect is mispronouncing every word

by Anonymous 2 years ago

All my typos, misspellings and grammar mistakes are just an extremely localized dialect.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

*tipos, mistspellengs, und gremmer misteaks

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You can't say "I did NOT do nothing" means the same thing as "I did nothing". 0≠1 and never will. "I am a dog" will never mean "I am not a dog." If they mean the same thing at your locality, you locality is stupid. If words don't have a shared meaning, then what's the point of having words?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So language is actual not a mathematical system. Words can differ between dialects the same way they differ between languages

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yes, language is not mathematical. But are words not used to express ideas and logic? If words don't have a shared meaning, then they are meaningless. "Is" and "is not" cannot have the same meaning in any language.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Words aren't really used to express logical abstractions like that—at least not in natural speech—and our general understanding of what language is has moved passed what you're describing. We know know, for example, that outside of writing, words are really a major unit of meaning, phrases are. When listening actively to an utterance, your brain is going to process a whole phrase and only notice individual words through reflection after the fact. That's the reason a phrase, like "couldn't care less" for example, can mean something completely different from its component words. Another good example is the use of speech actions to manage conversation between speakers. The classic examples are things like "uh" and "um" which do have a deliberate pattern in how they're used by native speakers as places holders for different kinds of things. Because they're used in clearly defined ways, they aren't simply sounds, but they also don't have any semantic meaning. Our understanding of formalized written languages has no way to account for that, but it's still real language happening everyday. Moreover, words like "and" will be used as this kind of speech action even though it does have semantic meaning sometimes in speech and always in writing. The way of thinking about language as a way of referring to platonic abstractions falls apart pretty quickly when you get to the nitty gritty of applying it to how language is actually used.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

This is wrong, but I know what you mean…😁 "I did" will never mean the same as "I did not". "I could" will never mean the same as "I could not".

by Anonymous 2 years ago

They do have a shared meaning. That meaning is just different from *your* dialect.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Words are defined by their use, not a standard dictionary. If everyone except you is using "I am a dog" to mean they are not a dog then you're the stupid one.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cope. Yeah, "nothing" means nothing in all cases, oh, except in this one phrase where it seems like the speaker couldn't figure out how to express themselves using the previously agreed upon definition of the word. There it means anything.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You know what idiomatic expressions are, right? Yikes.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

"It was just an idiom, bro!" Zoinks.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

That's how idioms work, they just are. Glad we sorted this out.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Correct. If someone is using "I did not do nothing" to mean "I did nothing" then they are stupid. If someone thinks "nothing" has the same meaning as "something", they are also stupid. Everybody knows the meaning of the word "not". Everybody knows that "nothing" is the opposite of "something". These are defined in the dictionary AND by their use.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

They do have a shared meaning for the people who speak that dialect. And yes, people can say that.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Don't ever sign a contract. Your argument of "I know what the words say, but they mean the exact opposite to me" ain't going to work.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

In these dialects, "I didn't do nothing" means they didn't do something. If someone accuses a person of doing something, saying "I didn't do nothing" meant they didn't do it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yes, that would be a case where "something" is equivalent to "nothing". That is wrong. "Something" is always the opposite of "nothing" in every "dialect".

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Not it's not. Saying "I didn't do nothing" in those dialects literally means "I didn't do anything" or "I didn't do something". And considering that there are dialects that say "I didn't do nothing", not it's not wrong. Certain dialects use double negatives. A dialect cannot be "wrong".

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Negative concord is a prominent feature of some forms of English, perhaps most notable in African-American Vernacular English.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

But you still understand what's being said, which is the core point of language.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's incorrect, just because I (might) understand what you mean, doesn't make it correct. Like sarcasm, this is a situation where you have to use context and clues to know that the message is suppose to be the exact opposite of what was said. Most of the time this works, but you're just introducing a greater likelihood of miscommunication.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It doesn't matter if it's incorrect or not if you still understand it, that's my point. And what do you mean with "might" understand it? What else could it mean? If someone wants to say that they DID do something, they would just say "I did it". No one will say "I didn't do nothing" and mean to say that they did in fact do something. "I didn't do nothing" and phrases with double negatives still only has one meaning and it's easily understood, even though it is technically incorrect.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I said "might", because, like sarcasm, we're guessing, or using other clues and context instead of words to decipher the meaning, or the opposite meaning. This is a formula for miscommunication. Take the phrase: "I could care less about starving children." Does the person mean "I could NOT care less, because I already give them zero dollars"; or does it mean "I already send them a lot of money, but maybe I could send less."? "Could" and "could not" will never mean the same thing. "Did" and "did not" will never mean the same thing.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, right.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Popular. So popular.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

This is not an unpopular opinion.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

their goal is to let you know they didn't do anything when they say "i didn't do nothing", you understand what they are trying to communicate so that is a successul communication, language has done it's job

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I hope you stand up for grammar when you're out in public - this has gone on for far too long! Especially in back alleys and shadowy corners, if you hear poorly constructed sentences (which are not immediately self-corrected), it's your duty to go up to the person and let them know it!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Guess I'll be captain grammar from now on

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I try to type everything in a grammatically correct way, except some things for emphasis. That being said, I speak in a very grammatically incorrect way with a fairly heavy midwestern accent because that's how people talk where I'm from. What I'm saying is: NO ONE CARES

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I just put on a shaggy song and double point when it goes "it wasn't me". No matter the situation. Cop is like when I saw you dancing at the murder double point: it wasn't me.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I would agree with you if somebody was being serious, and/or straightforward when they say that sentence, but that sentence originated as a form of sarcasm or slang, which doesn't have to adhere to traditional meanings of the words. Though I am a descriptivist and not a prescriptivist, thus some may disagree with this opinion

by Anonymous 2 years ago

"He don't know no better"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Can't take anyone seriously who is lazy enough to use double negatives.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Latinos be like (I'm Latinx I can make this joke)

by Anonymous 2 years ago

> Latinx No

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Half the people here should never write or sign a contract, because "I know it says that, but they really mean the exact opposite." isn't going to hold up.

by Anonymous 2 years ago