Don’t never tell nobody not to use no double negatives

Sometimes what I read tells me what to write about. Other times the hints come from what I watch. This time it’s both. First I read a line in Richard Pryor’s autobiography Pryor Convictions with this mighty stack of intensifying negatives: You can’t tell nobody not to snort no cocaine. That led me to rewatch […]

Don’t never tell nobody not to use no double negatives

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