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Double negatives are fun! It's a little weird how, depending on the context and language, they can either be positive or extra-negative. "I don't see nothing!" is often used to mean you can't see anything, the double negatives reinforce each other rather than cancel out into a positive meaning. Similar for "I don't have no ..." or "we don't need no ..."
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Isn't this something that only means so, in the recently developed dialects?
I mean if it were instead, "> I don’t see nothing.", I would understand it as the person is actually seeing something.
For me, it's a phrase with either meaning, dependant upon the tone in which it was said.
Yes.
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