a joke about two pere ubuists

[Abdiel OAbdiel]

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Like double negatives.  Way back when, used to
> intensify the negatives.  Then it cancelled them out
> (the negative of a negative ...).  I blame the
> Enlightenment, all that logic 'n' math 'n' stuff ...

"We don't need no stinkin badges." 

"I gots plenty of nothin." 

I ain't got none." 

No, we ain't got no bandanas. 

No, I ain't gettin none of no negative vibes, no I
aint.  

L2 speakers (i.e., L1 Spanish, L2 English) use double
negatives all the time. And the explaination  for this

can not be supplied by the prescriptive rules of
grammar of either the L2s (Spanish, or Portuguese or
Black talk) of the L1 (English). 







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