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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Don't wanna fight no more?

This is a refrain phrase in a song "Profit in Peace" by Ocean Color Scene. Is this a sentence of double negative and it means "Do wanna fight more"??? Though I believe it isn't, it seems like it is something different from I learn from my text book.
  

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'Do' here is probably a lazy pronunciation of the word 'don't'. It would sound like doh . When someone says 'I don't want to fight no more', they want to emphasize the negative.

— Clive

  • 'Do' here is probably a lazy pronunciation of the word 'don't'.
  • It would sound like doh .
  • When someone says 'I don't want to fight no more', they want to emphasize the negative.
  • They mean 'I want to fight no more' or 'I don't want to fight anymore'.
  • Clive
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'Do' here is probably a lazy pronunciation of the word 'don't'. It would sound like doh.

When someone says 'I don't want to fight no more', they want to emphasize the negative. They mean
'I want to fight no more' or 'I don't want to
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