Dialects & Accents (Was Re: Subject-Verb agreement with compound subjects)

[Mike]

> > Carol:
> > For example, in math(s), two negatives make a
> > positive, so, logically, a double negative is a positive: 
> > "I don't want none" means "I want some." 
> 
> Potioncat:
> Erm...I don't think so. If I said, "No, thank you ma'am, I don't
> want none," It would mean I did not want any.
> 
> Double negatives may translate differently out west or up north.
> 
> Ya'll come back now, heah?

Mike:
How would y'all translate a triple negative? 

I recently overheard a woman on a cell phone telling someone: 
"I ain't never not told him ..."
So, did she tell him or not? 

This was "up north" PC. ;-)