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Originally Posted by Elisabeth
Ah, my pet peeve of this song being sung incorrectly, of which I have many.
The "double negative" of "don't never" makes it a "positive", meaning "don't never" becomes "always" - now, there's an erroneous statement if I ever saw one!!
Yes, I'm an English teacher in another life!!  |
Must be a yankee, because yankee grammar is incorrect. Double negatives are perfectly fine and well-known to be correct standard English both in England and south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Although many north of the Line still speak it in spite of the misguided corrections of their more liberally educated betters.
Yes, I taught English grammar for over 20 years and still do, along with history, dialectics (both formal and material) and rhetoric.
