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[wyrdmuse]

Double negatives cancel each other out and make a positive statement, right? What about triple negatives? I was watching TV the other night and an ad for SciFi's newest cheesy movie (not the good kind of cheese either) comes on. The guy, some badass prisoner, rambles on about seeing strange things and then he says "I ain't never seen nothing

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Hmm...I think it depends on which part never is attached to...

[vistani]

Let's parse this sucker out. First, we'll get rid of "ain't" and use "Have not", that should avoid some confusion

[airforcegrrl]

i think that sentence takes it right back to negative. cause the first two negatives make the sentence positive till you toss in another negative.

make sense?

[vistani]

I just noticed your Sims 2 icon. *snortle*

All my Sims are gay.

[skyearthandsea]

It's both. It's positively negative--which reduces to negative, if you want to get really specific.

I had some negative and positive integer analogy going on in my head but then I realized I don't know enough about math to know if it is accurate or not. :P