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Я конечно по английски не рублю, однако здрасте

A double negative = a positive.

The sentance is correct like that, its ok to use double negatives as long as you mean it (No reason not to = there is a reason to)

Originally Posted by DDT

Originally Posted by Biancca

Anyway if something is a good idea i.e. makes money why not use it in different countries?

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shivtorov
The complete sentence, if used, would have been this.
There is no reason not to use a good idea from another country.

Originally Posted by Biancca

No reason not to = there is a reason to

That's not right, Biancca.

Originally Posted by DDT

The complete sentence, if used, would have been this.
There is no reason not to use a good idea from another country.

Yes. If anyone knows better, feel free to call me on my mistake, but I believe that in English double negatives are fine like this when they are in different clauses (main and subordinate). E.g.:
I don't like not having anything to do. or I don't like having nothing to do (same idea)
which is different from (cf. my previous post to Biancca):
I like having something to do.
And so the double negative is necessary. A double negative within the same clause is redundant, but this isn't.

I don't see no reason why not!

there aint no reason why not.

Originally Posted by Biancca

(No reason not to = there is a reason to)

It means that there are no reasons against doing what you want to do!
Not necessarily that there is a reason to do it.

Don't you not see what we are not trying to not say?

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Don't you not see what we are not trying to not say?

Of course! It is obvious.