Thursday, February 10, 2011

Quadruple Negative

It's been pretty cold this winter. This has sparked some debate about which was worse, this or last year.


Sierra: "It was negative 40 last year... and we had school!" [This, incidentally, is false.]

LaKira: "I ain't never been in no negative 40." [This is... true?]


I know double negatives are bad, but what's the rule on quadruple negatives? (Granted, the word "negative" is not in fact a negative in this sentence, but I'm going to go ahead and allow it, for style points.)

1 comments:

Dan said...

The great thing being, of course, that at negative 40, it doesn't matter whether you're talking about Celsius or Fahrenheit. At that temperature, they're both negative 40.