Your grammar teacher may have always told you “'I ain’t got no bags' doesn’t make sense, since to not not have something means to have something.” In other words, a double negative equals a positive. But I found a case where that might not be so. Let me explain.
We all know that butter is a delicious spread, but it is high in cholesterol, and, supposedly, it is a “secret killer.” Therefore, we highly innovative humans use margarine, a fake butter which is lower in cholesterol that butter has so much of. However, some people can’t have any of the cholesterol, so we invented a margarine substitute.
What I am getting at here is the fact that since a not not done equals a done, so to it would seem that a fake fake butter equals real butter. Even though according to our teachers double negatives equal a positive, I am inclined to think that that is not the case here.
Tell me what you think in comment form, but I suspect that if you disagree with me this time, you’re doing it on purpose, not because you really disagree with me.
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