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#16 (permalink) Wed Jun 25, 2008 23:52 pm English multiple negation

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Double negation of the #3 kind is a shibboleth, for many speakers: if you were investing a large sum of money in someone's business, it would be looked upon kindly; but in e.g. an interview, it might have a (doubly) negative effect.

Not with Sir Alan Sugar, it wouldn't.

Is an interview a siutation where multiple negation normally occurs? If so, which type of interview? If not, where does it normally occur?

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#17 (permalink) Wed Jun 25, 2008 23:54 pm English multiple negation

No, hell no. Professional interviews tend to be fairly formal -- at least you can bet that the interviewer will be fairly formal. And if the interview is on television, the interviewer will try her darnedest to not make a single mistake. _________________ Billie Jean is not my lover. Hee.

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#18 (permalink) Wed Jun 25, 2008 23:56 pm English multiple negation

Molly wrote:

Not with Sir Alan Sugar, it wouldn't.

How many Sir Alan Sugars are there?

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#19 (permalink) Thu Jun 26, 2008 0:08 am English multiple negation

MrPedantic wrote:

Molly wrote:

Not with Sir Alan Sugar, it wouldn't.

How many Sir Alan Sugars are there?

MrP

More than the prescritivists would have us believe. When you've been around business people a long time, you know that the scare-tactics of so called educationalists wanting to sell their standardised English product are not always worth worrying about. If you want a certain candidate enough, you don't often choose him/her for his abilities in standard grammar. See the last two episodes of The Apprentice (Brit version) for one example of such.

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#20 (permalink) Thu Jun 26, 2008 0:13 am English multiple negation

Molly wrote:

When you've been around businees people a long time, you know that the scare-tactics of so called educationalists wanting to sell their standardised English product are not always worth worrying about.

Spanish "business people" or English "business people"?

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#21 (permalink) Thu Jun 26, 2008 0:47 am English multiple negation

MrPedantic wrote:

Molly wrote:

When you've been around businees people a long time, you know that the scare-tactics of so called educationalists wanting to sell their standardised English product are not always worth worrying about.

Spanish "business people" or English "business people"?

International.

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#22 (permalink) Thu Jun 26, 2008 14:46 pm English multiple negation

prezbucky wrote:

...and i didn't go quite far enough in one of the above posts when I gave this as an example:

"They ain't eaten their beans yet."

To some down here, it would be even worse:

"They ain't ate their beans yet."

Cool beans, Tom Laughing

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