Quote Originally Posted by Asta Kask View Post
Why can't it be a feature of English (or at least some dialects of it)?
I think the point here is that people using a double negative are almost always using it *unintentionally* in English. The quoted lyric "We don't need no education", for instance, means we really *do* need some education due to the double negative--but that's not what the song is intended to convey, as you can clearly tell if you listen to the rest of the lyrics! I mean, this isn't a complaint about "To boldly go" being a split infinitive (which I never cared about and I doubt many people do), this is a case where the error actually changes the meaning of the sentence...