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From: John Boyle <john.boyle@geac.com>
Subject: Re: Impaired British Humour (was: Amerikan Kulture (was:MENSA))
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:33:27 -0800
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Gregory Resch wrote:
> 
> phil@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) writes:
>  > This is not true. Double negatives have always been part of
>  > English. . . .
> 
> I guess Chaucer and Shakespeare wrote pretty rotten English, then,
> inasmuch as they seem to have avoided double negatives utterly.
> 
> --
> This is a Watchbird watching for double negatives:   ~O~
> This is a double negative watching you:             nOnO


Greg:  I guess they did:

	    The Wife of Bath's Tale
       	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

       And hadde his eldres noble and vertuous,           1160       
       And nil himselven do no gentle deedes,
       Ne folowen his gentil auncestre that deed is,
       He nis nat gentil, be he duc or erl--
       For vilaines sinful deedes make a cherl.



Gloucester  He cannot be such a monster--
Edmund	    Nor is not, sure.

	    King Lear  I,ii,85
            ^^^^^^^^^		 
		
	
I didn't not have to look too hard neither.

jb

