2y ago

You ain't saw nothing

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in all of my years living in NYC, this has happened on no fewer than 4 occasions— seeing aa missing pet sign and then looking over to see that pet just sitting there or walking around nearby. yes, I called the owners.
- Holy crap, you've found four missing pets? That's pretty damn amazing.
  
  Found feels like a stretch, seems like NY cats have worked out that those poles are a taxi service just for them, so they just look for their pole and wait till their chauffeur to arrive.
  
  I’ve never even found a four leaf clover. I mean, I guess the last time I tried I was like 9 but still.
- Impressive! Wow, you go outside that often, huh.
  
  Oh, what am I saying. Of course you don't.
“You say anything and I’ll cut you”
"Did they put out the posters again!? I was gone for a day!"
That cat wants a snack thats all
- Not so strange actually. Sure, seen superficially, it seems that double negatives negate each other but that doesn't fit the empirical data. Many languages do this in their standard variety and English does it in many local, social and historical varieties. I think Shakespeare did it too.
  Spanish for example has "sin nada", literally "without nothing" but meaning "with nothing"/ "without anything".
  So the linguistic consensus is that the negative is expressed more than once. Depending on the language this might be optional or not. Slavic languages have a negative prefix "ne-" on verbs and this is obligatory if a negative word (like never, nobody,...) is used in the sentence.
- Its true the cat is not formally educated but please don't call it British.
- You ain't never learned to just keep that there mouth shut bout how some people make themselves easily understood?

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