Date:  Sat, 15 Nov 1997 15:42:39 -0500
From:  Ron Butters <RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: double negatives

Liudmila Kostiukevich writes:
>In Russian two negatives can be
>used without making meaning
>of the sentence positive. Moreover,
>the use of two negetives are very
>often and they even strenghten
>the negation.

I ain't got no doubts about the truth of this, but it is also true of most
varieties of English--though for a couple of centuries many "educated" people
have pretended that it is not.