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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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Don't = -1
Never = -1
Not = -1
-1 * -1 * -1 = -1
~ They don't have to explain themselves for nobody.
So it's the same comment.
Let me know if I have made a mistake.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nobody is a negation (not anybody). So they do have to explain themselves to somebody

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Formally yes, but I believe that's an (American English?) informal way of speaking where "nobody" actually means "anybody". Similarly to how "I don't need no man" means "I don't need any man".

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Of course, but I don't never need to be told nothing like that from nobody when I'm commenting in a pedantic language thread! /s