Re: double negatives (was "bad French")

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> As far as *I*
> could tell, my pedantic teachers objected to two negative-words in the
> same clause.
But in "I don't want to not go to the party", there's not two negative
words in the same clause.  It's two clauses, an independent clause "I
don't want", and a subordinate clause "to not go to the party".