Quote from: Rev.Cambeul on Sun 26 Jul 2009Quote from: Pink Floyd"We don't need no education ...."
Yes you do. That was a double negative (a grammatically substandard but emphatic negative).
A double negative is two (or more) negatives used for emphasis, eg, "We don't need no education" as opposed to "We don't need any education" Prescriptivist grammarians recommend avoiding double negatives in formal writing, but historians note this rule is of fairly recent manufacture in English history. By today's standards, Shakespeare was notorious for his use of the double negative.
@Cailen.
Well, maybe we need a little education, but from the right sources, and without the dark sarcasm.
We don't need no thought control, though. I know that much. And something else, we don't need no Negress backup singers with fake Cockney accents, either. Our girls can handle that.
I bet White guys came up with the light show in this video.