As part of Liberian-speak, Maya occasionally uses double negatives. When she said: "I don't have no white shoes", I logically replied: "So, you do have white shoes then."
Confused her something serious. I kept trying to explain double negatives and her expression got more and more confused.
I said: Isaac, come stand next to Maya.
"Isaac has no shoes," I explained, "But you don't have no shoes. You have shoes."
Maya: Huh???
Isaac: Ohhhhhhhh, I get it.
One less Clark using double negatives makes this Grammar Nut happy.
3 comments:
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What a smart way to illustrate the principle of double negatives!
Hahaha! You had me so confused I had to read it over 3 times!Blush... I am grammar challenged too.
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