Kawhi Leonard admits to wrong doing with double negative: “None of us did no wrongdoing.”

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1. Straight to grammar jail. 

2. So he admits it!

   The double negative strikes again. Take em away, boys.

3. The smoking gun

4. https://youtu.be/PKo7Ivssqfk?si=TxxKvps9EZAim_iI

5. A “double negative dialect” refers to dialects, such as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and Appalachian English, where using two negative words in a sentence intensifies the meaning rather than cancelling it out to create a positive, a contrast to standard English rules. This linguistic feature, also known as negative concord, is common in other languages and is often considered nonstandard or incorrect in formal English, despite being a widespread and logical part of certain English vernaculars. 

6. “ I didn’t not do it”

7. Book em, Dano.

8. Straight from his mouth

9. At least he’s honest

10. Lol book em then 

11. Fun guy

12. Onion title

13. this feels like a saul goodman prosecution tactic

14. Uwahahahaha (Kawhi Evil Laugh)

15. No one can say he’s lying here. Both ways.

    Genius move

16. Have to admit, that was the only Kawhi press conference that I ever was interested in

17. That’s actually about 18 negatives so who knows what that means

18. “Minority owner, Uncle Dennis, called and told me we’re completely innocent.”

19. “I rest my case”

    *dumbledore shrugging meme*

20. Checkmate, Mark Cuban

21. Damn y’all racist

22. This what happens when white ppl try to understand black ppl

23. He’s right, we’re all guilty.

24. Reddit nerd ass humor

25. Dialectal difference…double negative is a common feature of AAVE/BVE (African American/Black Vernacular English). Also a common feature of other languages such as French.

26. These comments are racist as fuck

27. Triple negative?

28. 900 upvotes for “hur hur AAVE”

    Fuck Ballmer, to a lesser extent, fuck Kawhi if hes been sandbagging, but this post is stupid as hell even by off-season standards

29. THROW HIM IN JAIL!

30. Kawhi says he did not have contractual relations with that company

31. Don’t, don’t bother Luke. That’s as clear as I can make it.

32. Reddit discovers aave

33. The double negative has led to proof positive.

34. r/nba not being aggressively white challenge

35. I want to see a logical gate constructed by “No one did not do anything wrong!”

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37. Isn’t that just a feature of AAVE? The use of double negatives is to emphasize not to cancel out

38. We just wanna know Kawhi he did it. We already know Kawhat he did.

39. Half these comments just need to go get 1 singular black friend, very common AAVE grammar and yall know what he means

40. That’s why it’s important to use the word “ain’t”. Throw an “ain’t” in front of that and you’re good. “Ain’t none of us did no wrongdoing.”

41. This is the whitest thing I’ll say this week, but AAVE negation rules are much different than Standard American English

42. Whomst amongst us hath not circumvented ye olde salary cap? 

43. Isn’t that a triple negative?

44. An unintentionally profound statement. Thank you Kawhistotle. 

45. He needs to stop talking asap

46. he should’ve done meme that laugh in the end

47. least white and least racist redditor

48. It’s a triple negative. “None”, “no”, “wrong-“.
    So none did doing. No one did anything.

49. Damn, Kawhi Leonard reputation is going down the sewer. Winning a championship in Toronto kind of fixed his reputation during the Spurs fiasco but damn….I feel like all 29 teams are going really boo/shit-on Kawhi Leonard this season and for the foreseeable future. Steve Ballmer is also losing alot of credibility and reputation too, after previously looking like one of the ‘good/fun’ owners!