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Was deliberately bad grammar ever used for emphasis in Latin?
In English, we can sometimes use deliberately incorrect grammar for effect in speech. The first example that comes to mind is a more colloquial example:
I ain't never going to do...
When I hear this sentence and the double-negative, it that…
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