Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
P.S. Never use double negatives is one of those Grammar Rules that are taught to younger children in school, along with Never split an infinitive and Never end a sentence with a preposition. (In fact, some of the greatest writers in the English language have broken all of these so-called "rules".)
We were taught to put prepositions at the end in questions and relative clauses. What are you thinking of? Later we found out that the preposition could be on the first place too.
About double negatives we were taught that they were impossible in English.
Из-за двойных отрицаний по-русски становится непонятна история Одиссея и Циклопа. "Кто тебя обидел?" "Никто" Ну, раз тебя никто не обидел,..." Это "не" не было нужно в древнегреческом.
- Чего ты не понимаешь?
- Ничего.