"Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote in message 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Warp [mailto:war### [at] tagpovrayorg]
>> - People who don't realize that when they say "I don't know nothing",
>> they
>> are actually saying "I know something".
>
> That one's at least understandable because, in many languages, a
> double-negative like that is really just "extra" negative.  They don't
> use a logical "not".

Afrikaans, for example, requires a double negative. Without both, the 
sentence is gramatically incorrect

eg "Ek het nie die man gesien nie"
Lit: "I have not the man seen not"

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