> And yet one of the father's of written modern English, Chaucer himself often used double negatives [0].
It's worth noting that neither of your examples has a double negative. Triple negative (the second possibly quadruple), sure, but not double.
> At this moment in time, double negatives are frowned upon.
I don't know that there's really a shift in time with the double negative, its a stylistic rule, and, much like the Pirate Code, stylistic rules in English are more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.
Or, looked at another way, more like training wheels.
It's worth noting that neither of your examples has a double negative. Triple negative (the second possibly quadruple), sure, but not double.
> At this moment in time, double negatives are frowned upon.
I don't know that there's really a shift in time with the double negative, its a stylistic rule, and, much like the Pirate Code, stylistic rules in English are more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.
Or, looked at another way, more like training wheels.