rotten double negative shock

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not sorry

No review yet or anything, but here is a brief mention of the jubilee celebration from the nme (you know, that thing the Sex Pistols used to use?).

It seems John attacked the Queen among others, which cheers me up. I was getting a bit worried by his 'not an anti-royalist' line recently (especially when comparing it with his 'not a fascist just because I'm an anti-royalist' bit in No Irish No Blacks No Dogs).

It seems he also said I'm sorry for nothing to no-one, ever. I totally agree with that. But I'm a bit unsure about the double negative. I grew up with negative concord, i.e. for us I never did nothing meant the same as I did nothing. But for those prescriptivists and others who ain't not got it, am I right in thinking that the two negatives here don't make a positive because of the kinds of negatives they are?

Intuitions fail me.

B-}

And finally, here's the caption competition:

you tell me

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