Negatives On Negatives. Angel Gaines

[realist_chriss]

I did nothing = I chilled all day at home

I ain't done nothing = I didn't do anything wrong

[acbrown]

Which is why i, having grown up in NC, always laugh at the "Double negative" complaint. Cause there are people who can turn double negatives into algebra.

[susanweisheit]

I’m white but from the south so I was gonna say “you ain’t got no money”

[charlesstevenson]

Linguistics Prof: In some languages, a double negative makes a positive. But a double positive never makes it a negative.
Skeptical student: Yeah, right.

[nessababy]

I’m not black but grew up in black neighborhoods and I realized how much of my way of speaking is from black culture.

[cheyennemolinari]

"That's called unemployment" I'm dead

[RobertHackney-zf]

A linguist told me that this is the syntact of African languages. Th more negatives, the greater rhe emphasis on negative, but English is different. Also Asian language depends on the modifier to imply plural, i.e. 5 dollar instead of 5 dollars

[CantWin_WhenUAintRightWithin]

I'm intrigued off this short clip. Lemme check out the full set.

[sebastianmaker]

My (Puerto Rican) mother enjoyed this thoroughly. She sent back a voice message saying "YES YES SHE HAS IT PERFECTLY"

[Celinemoonstone]

I knew which negative was coming next every time lol

[AlanMelling]

This is why AI will never catch up to the complex usage of real people

[Panwere]

I had a lot of black friends in school, so I knew first of she was going down this road, and she is right! The more negatives.. the bigger the fight coming around the corner...

[dabieyo]

As a non native English speaker and student, AAVE has always been a continuous source of interest for me, it's so full of life and like... YEAH the first moment she added the first negative I FELT that difference, love that

[deathmauler]

Its amazing that she was able to make such a good out of this. I love her timing. She seems very comfortable on stage and its amazing how connected she made it all.

[stillfoxyforever]

Her voice inflections is the cherry on top.

[peanutbutterpanda]

This is a great demonstration of prescriptive vs descriptive language. It's fine when you're taught in early schools about the prescriptive view of language, but too many people take that very basic level of education and think they are experts and that the descriptive view of language is invalid.
The purpose of language is to communicate, ignoring the ways people actually end up communicating while only focusing on the ways they they "should" as narrowly defined by a very slow to change set of rules is literally just choosing to be ignorant.

[gaylejideofor]

the more negatives just shows the pain of how much you just have never seen! good job sis.

[joannerandolph]

She must be an English teacher as well as a Comedian! Good job!❤

[wilbertlemuel]

This is a dialect. The double negatives are a carry over common in some West African languages. Like other ethnic groups with a long history in the US we carry cultural markers from langauge, to music to food from those who came before us. I like how the comedian pointed out the differences lol.

[Winsome-ni]

I bet this woman can SING! Her intonations are crisp and clear.😊