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05 Jan 2021, 4:23 am

You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals so let's do it like they do on the discovery channel.



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05 Jan 2021, 4:35 am

Jetso wrote:
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals so let's do it like they do on the discovery channel.



Dammit now I have to find that song to listen to, cause you got part of it stuck in my head...lol, so now I have to hear the whole thing. Lol do you have a link to the song cause I cannot find it on spotify but now that you mention it I want to hear it again ...oh wait i found it so nevermind.


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05 Jan 2021, 10:09 am

Quick and fast. Wow!


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05 Jan 2021, 11:14 am

That album's CD is out in my car's disc changer atm! I love to play "I Hope You Die" while driving.



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05 Jan 2021, 12:13 pm



An example of UN sexy make out music.

Perfect for ...promoting abstinence!

In fact in its in a dead heat with this song...for the title of most unsexy make out song of the early 2000's. :D



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05 Jan 2021, 1:33 pm

It should be "you and me baby are nothing but mammals".

Two negatives make a positive. "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals" means they are more than just mammals.



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05 Jan 2021, 3:36 pm

Oh its the grammar, not the crassness, that you object to.

According to some pedants that is true. That a double negative equals a positive (as in math). But thats only in certain dialects of English.

Other languages work the opposite way. You have to balance a negative with a negative.

So in Spanish you would say "No tengo nada" to mean "I dont have anything" even though it's literally "I no have nothing".



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07 Jan 2021, 9:25 am

Jetso wrote:
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals so let's...

...breastfeed our babies.


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11 Jan 2021, 4:56 am

i wonder why there are no triple negatives [at least outside of genuine exclamations of horror]?



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11 Jan 2021, 9:43 am

Poor people can't afford to go on dates, so they like to get real cozy right away.


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11 Jan 2021, 2:26 pm

auntblabby wrote:
i wonder why there are no triple negatives [at least outside of genuine exclamations of horror]?


Three negatives make a negative. "I don't never have no spare change." is at least logical, if not considered grammatically correct.



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11 Jan 2021, 3:26 pm

Shave off all our fur so we can pretend to be robots...


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11 Jan 2021, 8:25 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Oh its the grammar, not the crassness, that you object to.

According to some pedants that is true. That a double negative equals a positive (as in math). But thats only in certain dialects of English.

Other languages work the opposite way. You have to balance a negative with a negative.

So in Spanish you would say "No tengo nada" to mean "I dont have anything" even though it's literally "I no have nothing".
What does it mean when somebody uses so many negatives in one sentence that you cant keep track :?:


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12 Jan 2021, 3:16 am

Jetso wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
i wonder why there are no triple negatives [at least outside of genuine exclamations of horror]?


Three negatives make a negative. "I don't never have no spare change." is at least logical, if not considered grammatically correct.

ah, i shoulda thunk it. :study:



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12 Jan 2021, 6:20 pm

nick007 wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Oh its the grammar, not the crassness, that you object to.

According to some pedants that is true. That a double negative equals a positive (as in math). But thats only in certain dialects of English.

Other languages work the opposite way. You have to balance a negative with a negative.

So in Spanish you would say "No tengo nada" to mean "I dont have anything" even though it's literally "I no have nothing".
What does it mean when somebody uses so many negatives in one sentence that you cant keep track :?:



In Spanish it is just being consistent. The same in nonstandard dialects of English. In standard English it's just being silly because you would have to count the negatives and divide by two to see if they are an odd number (making the statement negative), or even (making it positive).



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13 Jan 2021, 12:15 am

naturalplastic wrote:
nick007 wrote:
What does it mean when somebody uses so many negatives in one sentence that you cant keep track :?:
In Spanish it is just being consistent. The same in nonstandard dialects of English. In standard English it's just being silly because you would have to count the negatives and divide by two to see if they are an odd number (making the statement negative), or even (making it positive).
I thought that's how it wold work in standard English but counting more than a couple of negatives is tiring so my rule of thumb is to consider it negative when more than a couple of negatives are used. BTW it usually is not that difficult to tell if a number is an odd or even amount without having to divide it by two :lol:


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