• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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      4 months ago

      🤔
      Don’t = -1
      Never = -1
      Not = -1
      -1 * -1 * -1 = -1
      ~ They don’t have to explain themselves for nobody.
      So it’s the same comment.
      Let me know if I have made a mistake.

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        4 months ago

        Nobody is a negation (not anybody). So they do have to explain themselves to somebody

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          4 months ago

          Formally yes, but I believe that’s an (American English?) informal way of speaking where “nobody” actually means “anybody”. Similarly to how “I don’t need no man” means “I don’t need any man”.

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            4 months ago

            Of course, but I don’t never need to be told nothing like that from nobody when I’m commenting in a pedantic language thread! /s