Re: double negatives (was "bad French")

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> 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".
>
I sit corrected once again.  :-)

YHL