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red chamber dream
Yes, ROMS are never legal.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
They're only illegal if they catch you...
they're only illegal if you don't make them yourself, and if you don't have to break any encryption to do so.
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Ready and willing.
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they're only illegal if you don't make them yourself, and if you don't have to break any encryption to do so.


Double negative. YOU LOSE!  :P
dude. we're not all engineers. my logic sucks. you will interpret what i have said correctly regardless.
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they're only illegal if you don't make them yourself, and if you don't have to break any encryption to do so.


Double negative. YOU LOSE!  :P

Contrary to popular beliefs, prefixes/suffixes that invert the definition of a word is usually not considered to be a negative.
The following sentences should highlight the difference: (underline denotes negatives, bold denotes inverted meanings)
I did not go to the park without my dog. Without is inverse of with but this is a valid sentence.
He did not go unnoticed. Another legit statement.
He hardly never punched the illegitimate lawyer. Yes, hardly is considered a negative. No illegitimate is not.
You ain't never suppose to not use no double negatives! This is just fun to say when people are pissing you off with negatives.

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dude. we're not all engineers. my logic sucks. you will interpret what i have said correctly regardless.

He was pointing out your grammatical "mistakes". Engineers need not grammar. Your logic does indeed suck :P.
Double negatives are also perfectly valid - contextually, of course. A double negative is not a positive, and as such carries a separate weight and meaning which is occasionally more elucidative than a mere positive assertion.
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Ready and willing.
Oh sush, everyone. Eka, I'm not sure if you picked up on it or not, so I apologize if it sounds like I think you're an idiot, but the point was after the comma, the sentence goes from "it's only illegal if" to "it's only legal if".
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suppose to

supposed to! come on, man!
It wasn't a double negative. YOU LOSE!
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Ready and willing.
Yes, and I accept my loss humbly.
so dont go download a rom?  good, you saved my buut  :) i havent even had a chance, so its a good thing
soaking through
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Yes, and I accept my loss humbly.


Shouldn't that be "losing" instead of "loss?"
soaking through
Bah.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
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Yes, and I accept my loss humbly.


Shouldn't that be "losing" instead of "loss?"


I guess it could be, but it doesn't sound as good or something...
soaking through
It's less ambiguous, but seeing as it's in context, that doesn't make much difference.
the people went off into to the night and then aint no one never see them again  Laughing

real triple negatives ( my teacher told me)
red chamber dream
So, is that a correct sentence, then?
Technically not. "Ain't" is a contraction of "am" and "not"; it's applicable to any structuring (i.e. it can stand in for "is" or "are" rather than just "am"), but it's still a derivative of "to be". The second clause doesn't include the "to be" concept in its verb structure, and as such, "ain't" is misplaced. Given this, "no one" and "never" form an improper double negative.
red chamber dream
Yeah, I see it. That's pretty much the "redneck" use of "ain't"...not using to conjugate "to be."
I would call it "dialect-oriented" rather than "redneck", as I do consider it perfectly valid in dialogue. :)
red chamber dream
Ah...Nida, are you sure that you're not a fat old guy, like Sarah is?

But seriously, yeah, I guess to certain people and places, uses of some words can be different. I'm a just guy who likes his English by the books.
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Ah...Nida, are you sure that you're not a fat old guy, like Sarah is?

Fat and old are mutually exclusive.
heres another one,

Then the zombies came back a moanen and a groanen, like they aint never got no brains nor nothing.

Try that  Rolling Eyes