a joke about two pere ubuists

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 6 19:57:10 CST 2003


Er, yes, we have no bananas?  At any rate ...

--- Abdiel OAbdiel <abdieloabdiel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 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).

Interesting.  A fascination of mine.  Thanks ...

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